Coulter misstated midterm election history, declared Democrats will "go away as a party" if they don't achieve what would be historic gains in House
October 27, 2006 12:51 pm ET
SUMMARY: On Fox News, Ann Coulter asserted that Democrats
"ought to be picking up 60 or 70 seats" in the House of
Representatives in this November's midterm elections or "they may
as well go away as a party." Coulter based her assertion about Democratic
gains on her false claim that "[t]he average of the midterm election
pickup since World War II is about 40 seats." In fact, since World War II, the average gain in the House
after a midterm election has been about 25 seats.
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