Still trying to chase down results in key legislative races around the country, but at the moment it looks like this:
• Going into the 2010 elections, Democrats held 60 partisan legislative chambers and Republicans held 36, with a couple of ties.
• It looks like the GOP has picked up an astounding 20 chambers, including both houses in Alabama, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Wisconsin and additional chambers in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
• In total legislative seats, it is possible that after all the results are posted, Republicans will have won a nationwide majority.
• Republicans haven’t enjoyed this much power in state capitals since the 1920s.
Will Ferrell's version of "Land of the Lost". Forward to the stone age, with cringing results.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt took 134 years but the post-Reconstruction anti-Republican fervor in North Carolina and Alabama has finally subsided.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNH's got three chambers?? :-)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou're right denroy...we need larger debt, deeper deficits, bigger government, and higher taxes--and all against the will of the majority of American citizens.
Yep, that'll do it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYes New Hampshire actually has 3 chambers: A 400 member House (second in size only to Congress), a 24 member Senate, and a 5 member Executive Council as a check on the governor's power.
Governor Lynch (D) will be mighty lonely with 5 Republicans on the Council, 19 Republicans in the Senate, and in excess of 290 Republicans in the House.
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