ping for later reference
Here in NH, we went from 175 (out of 400) to almost 300. Plus the senate went from 14-10 Dems to about 19-5 Reps. Love it!
Here it looks like we got the state House back, although a couple of races are still close. Didn’t get the Senate though.
If the county level person fails to purge the dead or allows shenanigans with registrations to go on...criminally prosecute for malfeasance.
Then voter id's.
We deserve better than 3rd world elections.
YES!!! I’m almost more pumped about the gains in state legislatures than I am about the US Congress.
To make a baseball analogy, the vast majority of the democrat party’s farm system got wiped out Tuesday!
That is all this means and it is HUGE!
All I can say is, you better do something with that control that demonstrates your conservatism.
For anyone who doesn't know, Nixon was a big government liberal.
"Noam Chomsky remarked that, in many respects, Nixon was "the last liberal president." Indeed, Nixon believed in using government wisely to benefit all and supported the idea of practical liberalism."
The local races may be the place where Tea Party groups are most effective. I know that a concentration on local politics is trumpeted by many in that movement. As pointed out above this has some pretty significant implied consequences and in the long run may be considerably more important than taking control of one house of the Federal legislature.
Bookmark, nice post.
Beauty.
RE: Devastation: GOP Picks Up 680 State Leg. Seats
Tell that to New York. We’re still stuck with the same old people in Albany.
The huge national Tsunami encountered a HUGE DAM when it hit New York State.
Am proud of my fellow Pennsylvanians, with the perennial exception of the mindless robots/dead from Filthadelphia.
Currently, there are 7382 state legislators in the United States.
What matters more are how many *chambers* are dominated by Republicans. There are a total of 99 chambers, with two per State except for Nebraska, which only has one.
This means that if you take as an average that the two chambers in a State are evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, just a few seats can change which party controls a chamber. A change of 680 seats nationwide is therefore huge.
Thinking again in terms of averages, this works out to 3 or 4 seats in every chamber in the United States.
In MN we picked up one Congressional Seat - tossed out Oberstar a 36 year Democrat rep. Took over both state houses, first time ever for the state senate. And before the election the senate had a super majority for the Dems.
A bloodbath.
An absolute bloodbath for the Dems.