In a closed-door meeting Tuesday, Democrats re-elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi to another two-year term as House minority leader.

The 74-year-old California Democrat was re-elected by voice vote in a race in which she faced no challenger, Politico reports.

Pelosi has been party leader in the chamber since 2003, including four years in which she was the first female House speaker. Her victory comes despite some complaints from her party that she was doing an inadequate job of selling its policies to voters and accusations that she helped to foster an unfriendly political climate.

The re-election comes two weeks after mid-term elections in which the blue party lost at least a dozen seats in the chamber and Republicans went on to hold the most seats they've had since the 1940s.

“They wiped the floor with us, so no, we’re not feeling good,” Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said. "We think clearly there was a lack of a coherent and compelling message. We believe that certainly our leadership worked hard, but there obviously was something lacking because we lost so many seats. I want to see members who have a better handle on the caucus brought in, whether they be young or old. I want people who have a good pulse of what is going on in our caucus … people who are more inclusive.”

Despite Pelosi's current unpopularity with some liberals, Democrats consider Pelosi a tough leader and a tremendous financial asset.

Her aides said, according to The Associated Press, that she was instrumental in raising over $101 million over the past two years for House Democrats, by appearing at 750 campaign events in 115 cities. -- a onetary number that is roughly the same amount as raised by House Speaker John Boehner.

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