Meanwhile House reelection rate this year was 97%. In the Senate it's 90%. https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/reelect.php There was a net change of 6 out of 435 seats in the House. That's just over 1%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2016 Americans seem to have a funny idea of what "change" means, or don't understand how their own government functions.