Naturally a lot about the election is going unnoticed because of the presidential race. However, in addition to what looks like good news for the GOP in the US Senate and very good news in the US House, things are also looking up in states across the country.
According to the WSJ's
A Democratic Flop in the States
A pricey bid to control redistricting fails to flip statehouses
Can donors to former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder’s campaign to take control of statehouses get their money back? Democrats on Tuesday failed to flip any of the GOP legislative chambers they targeted, and Republicans expanded their majorities in some statehouses.
In 2010 Republicans swept statehouses in states including Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Iowa. This allowed them to draw new Congressional and state maps after the 2010 Census. New GOP statehouse majorities also limited collective bargaining, passed right-to-work legislation (Michigan, Wisconsin), cut taxes (North Carolina, Iowa, Michigan) and expanded school choice (Ohio, Wisconsin, North Carolina), among other reforms. Democrats blamed Barack Obama for ignoring statehouse races.
Mr. Holder has since launched a half-decade campaign to regain control of statehouses and the post-2020 Census redistricting, and he’s raised a boatload of money to do it. In 2018 and 2019, a backlash against President Trump helped Democrats win governorships in Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin and “trifectas” (both legislatures and governorships) in Nevada and Virginia.
Democrats went into this election with 39 legislative chambers, 19 statehouses and 15 trifectas. The GOP boasted 59 legislative chambers, 29 statehouses and 21 trifectas. Democrats aimed to flip the legislatures in North Carolina and Arizona and chambers in Texas, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Iowa.
They came up short everywhere. Democrats didn’t pick up a single new chamber or governorship while Republicans won two more trifectas in Montana and New Hampshire by flipping the governorship in the former and both legislative chambers in the latter. Oh, and Republicans expanded legislative majorities in Florida and North Carolina.
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Bring on the redistricting!
Another painful realization. My world view got upended again. Trump has done that a lot, ripping off masks that people and institutions have worn that hid their corruption / bias / stupidity.
ReplyDeleteVoter fraud in Democratic controlled areas in many states seems to be very widespread and going on for years.
This includes in the West:
- Washington
- Colorado
I am amazed at so many in the GOP are willing to accept the fraud. Chris Christy and Rick Santorum are examples. Others with their silence.
My guess is this partially a legacy of the GOP consent decree on elections that expired.
And even the NY Post is saying Trumps claim of election fraud is baseless:
https://nypost.com/2020/11/05/trump-to-speak-from-white-house-as-vote-count-leans-toward-biden/
And Twitter and Facebook are censoring claims of fraud.