Posted on 09/09/2021 7:42:56 AM PDT by cotton1706
With conservative moves to restrict abortion and voting rights dominating headlines, an outsider might be forgiven for thinking it was Republicans, not Democrats, who run Washington.
But the most important elections of 2020 probably weren't for who would take the White House or Congress -- it was the battle for control of America's state houses.
"The Republicans have been especially good at winning state legislative elections," Wendy Schiller, a professor of political science at Brown University, told AFP.
"They smartly focused time, money and energy into winning the House of Representatives back in 2010, and state legislatures."
In that year alone, she said, Republicans picked up more than 600 seats, eventually amassing a nationwide lead of almost 1,100 seats.
While control of the executive and legislative branches might seem like the endgame in US politics, Americans' happiness and prosperity depends as much on what happens in state capitols as in the US capital.
Republican legislatures have wielded state power with alacrity in recent weeks, passing a barrage of what opponents characterize as voter suppression bills, while Texas just signed strict measures into law that essentially amount to a total ban on abortion.
Critics expect the eventual outcome of the laws, which are seen spreading across numerous red states, to be wide disparities in access to services from one part of the United States to the next.
"Federalism has always produced stark inequality in the arena of civil rights and voting, and again now with restrictions on abortions," said Schiller.
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They just LOVED it when democrats controlled the state legislatures. And there are no complaints when DEMOCRAT legislatures just do what they want (look at California).
After 2022, these people will be EVEN sadder.
In this era we live Big Money, Big Pharma, Big everything runs America..For the People went out the window years ago...People have no say much anymore.
So we’re winning the middle zone. Still doesn’t feel good.
Found this article on local elections but unfortunately is mainly on mayors of the largest 100 cities (63%) Dem.
https://ballotpedia.org/Partisanship_in_United_States_municipal_elections_(2021)
Not sure what’s going on in the rest of America for school boards, commissions, city councils, supervisors etc.
The Chicoms
Boo hoo, Wendy.
It’s a Big Club, and you ain’t in it.
There are about 20,000 Harvard/Yale law school grads in America.
That tiny group is 20% of the Senate, 30% of CEOs, and 100% of the Supreme court.
We should never forget that Cruz, DeSantis, Josh Hawley, and Ben Sasse all studied under the same teachers and have the same social networks as Obama, Warren, Corey Booker and Chuck Schumer.
Not the people.
The People run America, you know, Gates, Soros, Bezos, Pelosi, Obama, the Clintons.
They like us, right?
The banksters run it all...
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