Mostly good news for the GOP:
Texas will lose some influence in Washington when President George W. Bush leaves the White House, but a new study finds that the Lone Star state will be the big winner in the upcoming congressional reapportionment.
The study, from the firm Election Data Services, projects that Texas will pick up three seats in Congress. Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Utah would gain one seat each. Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania would each lose one.
There are some caveats noted later in the story – the slowdown in population growth in some States (such as my Nevada) due to the economic crunch could alter projections, but there is also the chance that California – for the first time since statehood in 1850 – might lose a House seat. Meanwhile, a surge of people returning to Jindal’s Louisiana might preserve all of Louisiana’s House seats. If this happens, it will be all the proof needed that liberalism, however applied, is a complete failure while conservatism, properly applied, is a success. In IA, MA, MI, NJ, NY, OH and PA you have something in common – Democrats running the show. For the most part, same thing in CA – sure, there is a GOP governor, but Democrats so completely dominate the legislature, courts and bureaucracy that the governor doesn’t matter all that much. Meanwhile, TX, FL, GA, NV and UT have Republicans, while AZ is the lone growing State with a Democratic governor (soon to be out of office due to being appointed to the Cabinet by Obama just in time to avoid the liberal chickens coming home to roost).
People are voting with their feet – rapidly fleeing the bastions of liberalism in favor of conservative governance.
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