Posted on 11/11/2012 2:31:19 AM PST by Evil Slayer
Divided government still rules in the nation’s capital after last week’s Tuesday’s vote, but unity is increasingly the name of the game in cities such as Annapolis, Topeka, Concord and Little Rock.
In a little-noticed footnote to last week’s election, state legislature elections this year have produced the highest number of states with one-party rule in 60 years. Democrats or Republicans now have sole control of the governorship and both legislative chambers in 37 state capitals around the country.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), which tracks party representation in the country’s 50 state governments, Democrats now control all three bases of power – the governorship and both houses of the state legislature – in 14 states and Republicans in 23, with only 12 states sharing power. (Nebraska’s unicameral legislature is considered nonpartisan.)
Regional power bases are also emerging, with Democrats increasingly dominating state governments across New England.
Conversely, after last week’s vote, the GOP for the first time since 1872 now controls the Arkansas House and Senate. Just 20 years ago, Republicans didn’t have a majority in a single legislative house in the states of the old Confederacy – now they control all 11.
The number of states with divided government is down from 31 just 16 years ago to 12 today, prompting speculation on the country’s evolving partisan geography.
“I think it is a reflection of a growing ‘sorting-out’ of our population – where people live – and our politics,” said Karl Kurtz, a political scientist at the NCSL. “They tend to go all the same way for governor, for legislator and – for that matter – for president.”
Bill Bishop, author of the book “The Big Sort” on the growing polarization of American politics, said, “There are mores states that have tipped either increasingly
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In one bright note for Republicans, the party added one net governorship its total, with 30 GOP governors nationwide to 20 Democrats.
Lets see which States are better run and have a better quality of life.
Lets see which States are better run and have a better quality of life.
...and do large cities play into the statistics?
Obama’s still trying to figure out what happened to the other 7 states.
Get your children out of government schools.
Imagine if we didn’t have the 17th Amendment stepping on our necks. We would have a huge majority in the US Senate.
Even Michigan is a large GOP majority state.
Let’s have all 37 secede, so I can move to one of them.
I could get out of this Democrat controlled Maryland and go somewhere that people have enough common sense to vote against the Muslim.
Now don’t forget, Obama said in 2008 that he had already visited 57 states, had one to go, and his campaign wasn’t letting him go to Hawaii and Alaska. That means that he believes there are 60 states!
So far this is true, However, even the “good” states are going to be overwhelmed by national debt, Obamacare, and other horrid policies before long. I think people are going to find that there is nowhere to run.
Lock step unity is the very LAST thing we want. DO NOT SUCCUMB TO IT!!!!
It will be the beginning of the Fascist States of America.
For the greater good? That good is defined unilaterally by liberal fascists....do not allow it!
Read why here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Many will. But here is a problem. Insurance COMPANIES are national, and as they become unprofitable in some big blue states they will go out of business or change their models altogether. It’s less state policy driving this and more about how much they can tolerate financially.
Not in EV
Amazingly, West Virginia is now voting reliably for the Republican for President but geneally Democrat for everything else. But this year we have a historic high in State House delegates (45 of 100, highest since 1932) and just won the Attorney General and one Supreme Court race, to add to the first GOP Supreme Court justice and 2 of 3 Congressman. So we are gradually strengthening even here in the home state of Senator Byrd.
I'll say it again ...
Conservative principles need to be cultivated from the ground up, not the top down.
Look at state like North Dakota. One of the "darkest red" states in the U.S., with Republicans in control at the state level in both the legislative and executive branches. Barack Obama got something like 39% of the vote there in 2012, yet the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate won.
It's time to stop this crap where we have Beltway @ssholes with access to hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign cash driving the agenda all over the U.S.
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