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Once the party of presidents, the GOP in recent elections has failed to win convincing national majorities. Republicans have lost four of the last six presidential races and lost the popular vote in five of the six. In the lone Republican victory, the party incumbent wonduring wartimeby the slimmest of margins. Republican fortunes in Congress, meanwhile, have been almost a mirror image in 1994 the GOP had controlled the Senate for just ten years in the previous six decades since then it has had a majority more than half the time. Its control of the House of Representatives is even more striking. In 1994 Republicans gained their first House majority in forty years since then theyve been in control for all but four years, and they will likely retain a majority for the rest of this decade.