Posted on 04/02/2014 1:47:24 PM PDT by cotton1706
Democrats should be worried about more than just the U.S. House and Senate.
If President Obama's poll numbers remain underwater, Republicans are poised to capture control of several state legislatures this fall. The GOP could capture as many as 8 state legislative chambers in November and pick up seats across the country.
“Republicans are poised to gain control of chambers in blue states and purple states across the country," John Loe, spokesman of the Republican Legislative Campaign Committee, told Breitbart News. "With issues like Federal Balanced Budget Amendment legislation passing in state houses, and Democrats’ weak legislative record, voters are going to reward us this fall. Republican dominance in state houses will expand to historic highs after this election.”
An under-appreciated story of the 2010 midterms is the historic gains made by the Republican party at the state level. The party flipped around 675 seats, far more than their gains in the 1994 wave election. Moreover, the party reversed the partisan control of state legislatures and allowed the party to play a strong role in legislative redistricting. This advantage will likely keep the party in control of the US House of Representatives for the next decade.
At their high-water mark the day President Obama was inaugurated in 2009, Democrats were dominant at the state level. The party had picked up 21 seats in the House in the 2008 elections, expanding their majority in the chamber. In the Senate, the party picked up 8 seats, given them effectively 59 seats, the most since the Carter Administration.
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The only thing he worries about is his next Tee-Time!
Oh, And if Mooch is going to embarrass him & leave him before his term is up.
National Enquirer:
EXCLUSIVE: MICHELLE WALKS OUT AS OBAMA DIVORCE BATTLE EXPLODES!
If they do, I hope to Hell they Carpe Diem, change the law, award the state's Electoral Votes by Congressional District and break the power-grip of the Democrat-run cities, which routinely deliver the state in their column.
Make it a "Restore the power of the people and not the city machines" or some such slogan.
If the GOP would become far less statist I think it would truly be able to capture a large (and increasingly libertarian) constituency and essentially bury the dems.
After studying history and practicing criminal law as a prosecutor and defense attorney, I’m convinced that the government’s solution ends up being far worse than any problem the government tries to “fix”.
This country was way better off when the government wasn’t looked to for solutions to social ills. Sadly every problem (real or perceived) these days leads to a war on it. How many wars do we need? And when are the wars going to end?
The truth is that the government wants the “problem” to persist because there is no way they are going to cut the funding (bought votes) needed to keep waging war.
Moreover, the war on drugs is just a pretext to militarize domestic law enforcement. I’d rather take my chances facing the danger of an unregulated drug industry (like before the 1930s) than the dangers posed by a virtual standing army.
It’s no wonder that 4th Amendment jurisprudence didn’t really develop until after the war on drugs.
Before that people didn’t have to worry about SWAT teams kicking their door down.
The government is more scary than the problems they purport to solve or fight. That’s the bottom line.
By the way, I’m not a Libertarian. I’ve always voted GOP, but there are libertarian principles that the GOP could embrace.
I think that Republican win of states in November will be significant only if they help patriots force corrupt Congress back into its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited power cage.
And will they reverse homo marriage and crack down on abortion clinics? Doubtful. None of it matters unless the Republicans elected are CONSERVATIVES!
So? Will they DO anything? I doubt it. Even at the more local level it seems once in power the Republicans instantly go soft and turn into Dem-lite.
They took over here in TN and with a Republican governor still do nothing. They just play at the margins and never truly tackle the bureacracies or oversee agencies. It’s still just SOP day after day.
“change the law, award the state’s Electoral Votes by Congressional District”
That is an awful idea.
No, it would actually give those blue districts more power. My state, TN, goes Republican in national elections. If we did it by district instead of the GOP candidate getting 11 electoral votes for winning the state they’d only get 8-9 since at least two districts are hard core blue (Memphis area for one).
It’s a good idea in the blue states. Not so good in the red states.
Well, I guess it depends upon the state. Philadelphia routinely gives the vote to the Democrats, as does Las Vegas in Nevada, Chicago in Illinois, Denver/Boulder in Colorado, Miami in Florida, Minneapolis-St. Paul in Minnesota, Madison/Milwaukee in Wisconsin, ad nauseum.
At least, by that system, if the Democrats won, it would be by the voice of the people and not by a machine-run city.
This ignores the possibility of the left cheating their way to victory, in many areas of the U.S.! How much voter fraud existed during the November ‘12 election and from within all other U.S. elections past, present, and future?
Memphis and Nashville are “RED.” Red like the old Soviet Flag.
a ping of possible interest
Yes, it could work in favor of Article V, from which rats flee in terror.
Jesus Christ, this is like arguing with Liberals. They run into someone with a different point of view, their ESP goes into overdrive and they start making all kinds of idiotic assumptions.
No point in discussing the issue with that mindset - God know what you would fantasize about next.
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