From NRO’s The Corner:
…Republicans will make significant gains in state legislatures on November 2nd, according to our election projections.
The Republican Party is poised to gain control of up to 18 state legislative chambers on election night. Going into the elections,Democrats control 28 state senates while Republicans control 20…
The crucial aspect of this is the re-districting which will follow upon the 2010 census. If these projections hold true (and I strongly suspect they will – if not being even more of a crushing loss to the Democrats) then the Republican party will be in charge of drawing most of the legislative districts for the next 10 years. The last time we re-districted, the Democrats had had a pretty good year in 2000; the time before that (1990), the Democrats were in pretty solid control of the process. This will be the first time in a very long time where the Republican party will have such a large advantage in this process.
What is means is that a large number of districts which have been drawn to help Democrats will now be re-drawn – and that means the Democrats will have a much harder time recapturing what they are about to lose. We Republicans should take the very high road on this and draw the districts as fairly as possible – but given the realities of politics and human nature, there will probably be a scramble to pay Democrats back in their own Gerrymandering coin. But the effort should be made to reform the process with fairness in mind – this doesn’t worry me because I believe in fair contests, we’ll continue to do well.
Be that as it may, the Democrats look to be in quite a lot of trouble not just now, but for at least the next ten years. If the Republican party can deliver on the demands of the people, then we might (at very long last) genuinely get that re-alignment we’ve been working and hoping for since 1980.
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