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I sent my original post out before I realized that that Congress would be untouched. If much changes with that Prop. in changing the legislature favorably towards us (and I don’t mean more liberal RINOs), I will be shocked. In any event, I think the Dems may go ahead and cut us down from 19 seats in 2012 (or 20, if we knock out McNerney).

It won't be too hard for the Dems to knock us down a few pegs, unfortunately. I looked at the House races for us in CA. Dan Lungren only won 50%-44%. David Drier won 53%-40%. Bilbray got 50%-45%. And it looks like we underperformed in almost all the Orange County area seats: Campbell 56%-40%, Rohrabacher 53%-43%, Calvert 52%-48%, with only Gary Miller's seat still looking good at 60%-40%.

Yup. Precisely my worry. CA could end up looking like NY’s delegation after 2012. We’re now down to a jaw-dropping 3 out of 29 seats. Simply unimaginable. 1 seat on Long Island and 2 upstate. If King on L.I. retires, that seat could fall, and we’ll be at 2. Not since 2000 have we knocked off a Democrat incumbent there (and that was a RINO who had been elected as an “R” in ‘98 and switched parties), and prior to that, not since 1994 (and haven’t won an open Dem seat since 1992). In CA, we haven’t won a Dem held seat (via retirement) since 1998 nor knocked off a Democrat incumbent since 1994, all very disturbing trends.

I’m beginning to think proportional representation isn’t such a bad idea. NY is not a 90% Democrat state. We should have at minimum about 10-12 out of 29 seats. Even Massachusetts, we should have 3 or 4 out of 10 seats. That may be the only way to ensure any representation at all. New England’s 6 states being 100% Democrat in the House is simply unacceptable and absolutely unrepresentative.

McCain barley won the OC. 51-47. Pathetic!

Only a handful of rats have ever won it.

I they control redistricting in Illinois which will lose a seat we could be looking at just 4 Republicans down from a high of 10. (assuming Foster and Bean and Halverson (she almost certainly will) survive 2010)

I could get behind proportional representation also. If you made Chicago a 6-member district we’d get 1 seat. Depending on how it’s done overall such a scheme may help the rats because big cities will vote so heavily democrat they could sweep 3-member seats and at least go 3-1 in 4 member seats. Few GOP areas would give a 3-1 edge.