I created two charts in Apple Keynote 2.0 showing the balance of power in the United States Congress between Republicans and Democrats from the last 60 years.
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As is plainly seen in the chart, by historical standards, the current GOP majority in the Congress is miniscule. In fact there are three sessions on the chart where the Democrats had more than a 2/3rds majority in the House: 1964, 1974, and 1976. They held one seat below a 2/3rds majority in 1958.
This chart refutes the claim that because the Democrats have been losing seats as a minority party in Congress, it means they are slowly becoming irrelevant. Any intelligent person can examine the facts and see - though the Republicans were a minority party, especially in the 1960s, they managed to take power, for many reasons, one of the biggest being realignment and the Southern Strategy. The 1994 Republican Revolution was testament to their tight organization skills as a minority party, and capitalizing on public perceptions that a Democratic majority in Congress has been corrupted by longterm power.
What do we need to do to become the majority again? We need to streamline our message, expose the corruption of the majority leadership, and aggressively purse the Western Strategy. Seeing at how small the Republicans were as a minority party before they took power should encourage us even further.