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Flashback: Providing Some Context

November 6, 2006 5:14 PM | |

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Dems need to pick up 15 seats to win back control of Congress. That's happened only once since '82 -- during the '94 GOP sweep. Here's a look at the net pickups since 1970:


1970: +12D
1972: +12R
1974: +49D
1976: +1D
1978: +15R
1980: +34R
1982: +26D
1984: +14R
1986: +5D
1988: +2D
1990: +9D
1992: +10R
1994: +52R
1996: +3D
1998: +4D
2000: +2D
2002: +5R
2004: +6R