On Tuesday, a potential Clinton presidency was denied any hope of having control of the US House, even if she serves a full 8 years.
GOP will be in the drivers seat for redistricting in 2020
Time to repeal the 17th Amendment.
Now is the time to take back our country! No more excuses!!
We caught that on Fox last night on their early evening summary.
Thanks for posting the results.
That is significant!
Hmmmm, seems like this is getting pretty close to the numbers needed to pass Amendments to the Constitution.
Just sayin...
The state doesn't have enough money to buy a second camera? I can donate my used cell phone if they need it...
I think I heard last night that now 35 states will have GOP governors...
Making it more difficult for voter fraud should be the terminology. We have strict voter ID here in Kansas and I had no difficulty voting.
A very interesting read.
I think we should consider this our last opportunity to try and steer this country on course. We blew it last time with W and his lack of putting the veto pen to spending bills passed by his republican house and senate. This has got to STOP!!!
Even the democrat voters that can still add and subtract know this.
To me, these state legislatures are where we really need to be focused. This is great news - the grass roots is where it’s at. Will be critical if there is going to be a constitutional convention convened. I agree we need to strike while we have the momentum.
99.... Dammit Nebraska!
I just figured out manually how many houses switched one one party to divided. I also posted it this morning on another post from last night.
I haven’t had time to double verify my comparisons.
In the first column, I will put if they were dem before Tuesday, middle column if they are mixed and the third column if they were formerly repub controlled. (Forgive me if any are incorrect; I am just eyeballing this.)
For instance, MT would be /MT/MT, meaning formerly they were republican controlled and now they are divided.
And MD/MD would be they changed from dem controlled to now divided. ( I couldn’t think of an easier way for me to tally.)
Here are the sources, I compared.
http://www.statescape.com/resources/partysplits/partysplits.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/11/05/republican-sweep-extends-to-state-level/
Dem Then/ Divided Now / Previous Repub
WA/WA
/MT/MT
CO/CO
NM/NM
AK/AK
MN/MN (Solson mentioned already, but good to note it again)
IA (still divided)
MO/MO
IL/IL
KY (still divided)
WV/WV
/VA/VA
/PA/PA
MD/MD
/NJ/NJ (Sorry about that Christie)
MA/MA
NY (still divided)
ME/ME
So here is my tally. It looks like that we went from republican controlled to mixed in four states out of 18 that are now divided. And there was a change of divided states to red state legislatures to nine, and they were ME,MA,MD, WV,IL, MO, Mn,NM,CO and WA.
This is very heartening.
If anyone has a link with all these changes verified, please post it for us.
34 states total have resolved for the Balanced Budget amendment to the constitution. About a dozen of those states have rescinded their resolutions, and about 4 have re-resolved. However, constitutionally, states may *only* be allowed to make a resolution, *not* rescind one that has been made.
So, a Republican congress can, as soon as it is in office, decide on its own to organize an Article V convention. And there is nothing Obama could do to stop it.
Oddly enough, even the Supreme Court cannot stop it, either.
Once 34 states have passed resolutions, that is it. Congress *must* convene. So it is only a formality at this point for congress to resolve to organize a constitutional convention and to send a message to all state legislatures that they *must* provide delegates to that convention.
Importantly, some of the states have also restrained their potential delegates, that they *cannot* agree to any change to the constitution not authorized by their state, under criminal penalty. This alone is enough to prevent any radicalization of the process, at least enough to block the 38 states from changing the constitution unless they really agree with the change.
66/99 = 67% that’s override country.
Great news about the state houses. I haven’t seen a # of Secretaries of State that won and their political affiliation (and don’t have time to search now as I need to leave for work).
My thoughts/hopes are that with a large # of state legislatures being in Republican control, if the SoS in the states was as well, perhaps they could pass and enforce voter ID and voter fraud laws. I remember reading that a Soros group and a group in Colorado were trying to fund elections for Secretaries of State in various states a few years ago.
The gainsayers among conservatives fear a runaway convention which results in the loss of existing Bill of Rights liberties and the potential for a worse constitutional system. Most of these objections come from people who are myopically focused on the Second Amendment and fear that any Article V activity threatens their right to own and bear arms.
With 66 of 99 legislative houses firmly in control of Republicans, these fears are obviously groundless. It would require three quarters of the state legislatures to force such distortions of the Constitution through and that is simply a practical impossibility. Those conservatives who oppose a convention of the states should reconsider their position in the light of these numbers.
Because Republicans have acquired more control the ability of conservatives to secure meaningful amendments through an Article V convention of the states has been enhanced but is by no means assured. But the downside risk has been virtually eliminated.
Sure, kinda good. But with the concentration of Democrat voters in big cities and states, the GOP ought to have more governors and state houses.