But Boehner Claims a Mandate

Or maybe he meant a man date?  In any case, I've been charting the vote counting in the still undecided House races and now we are done, with the Dems winning each one (including the latest in North Carolina) and ending up with a net gain of 8 seats--despite the gross GOP gerrymandering that cost them at least another eight wins, by most counts, maybe more.  "The 113th Congress will be represented by 201 Democrats and 234 Republicans. Democrats entered the 2012 elections holding 190 House seats -- but due to vacancies in three Democrat-held seats, they gained eight seats overall."

Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books (see right rail of this blog).  His latest, on the Obama-Romney battle, is "Tricks, Lies, and Videotape."