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Did you know the GOP now controls 66 of 99 state legislative houses?
American Thinker ^ | 11/6/2014 | Rick Moran

Posted on 11/06/2014 8:18:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Another underreported fact from Tuesday's election is the extraordinary night Republicans had in winning state legislative seats.

The GOP now controls two thirds of state legislative houses – 66 of 99 (Nebraska's legislature is unicameral).  They upped the number of states where they control both house and senate to 24 – one more than they had before the election.  And according to this article in Vox, they cut the number of Democratic-held legislatures from 14 to 7.

Republicans made historic gains in state legislatures in 2010. They held on in many states in 2012, or made up for losses in one state with gains in another — even though Democrats won the national election. And they won even more in 2014. This isn't an accident — it's the result of strategic fundraising from national Republicans, beginning in 2010, aimed at engineering statehouse takeovers. Out-of-state contributions were shuffled to states where they would make a difference, particularly as congressional partisanship and gridlock made policymaking in Washington increasingly unlikely.

And at a time of national gridlock, state legislatures have done an immense amount of, well, legislating. Since 2010, 30 states, most controlled by Republicans, have passed a total of 205 new abortion restrictions. That's more restrictions than were passed in the entire first decade of the 2000s, according to the Guttmacher Institute:

wenty-two states, 18 with Republican majorities, have passed laws making it more difficult for people to vote.

After the Newtown shootings, most new state laws surrounding guns actually eased restrictions on owning and carrying firearms. Seventy new laws loosening gun control were passed, 49 in states with Republican legislative majorities and Republican governors, compared to three in Democratically controlled states.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: Nebraska; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2014; 2014election; 2014electionanalysis; 2014midterms; banglist; connecticut; election2014; elections; legislative; nebraska; newtown; statelegislatures; states; virginia
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1 posted on 11/06/2014 8:18:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

On Tuesday, a potential Clinton presidency was denied any hope of having control of the US House, even if she serves a full 8 years.

GOP will be in the drivers seat for redistricting in 2020


2 posted on 11/06/2014 8:21:13 AM PST by Viennacon
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To: SeekAndFind

Time to repeal the 17th Amendment.


3 posted on 11/06/2014 8:21:40 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: SeekAndFind

Now is the time to take back our country! No more excuses!!


4 posted on 11/06/2014 8:21:40 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

We caught that on Fox last night on their early evening summary.

Thanks for posting the results.

That is significant!


5 posted on 11/06/2014 8:21:46 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Islam/ISIS = The Ebola of religious/political ideologies!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmmmm, seems like this is getting pretty close to the numbers needed to pass Amendments to the Constitution.

Just sayin...


6 posted on 11/06/2014 8:22:33 AM PST by glorgau
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To: SeekAndFind
Now I know, I hope these laws are fair for us.
7 posted on 11/06/2014 8:23:57 AM PST by eizverson22
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To: SeekAndFind
Nebraska's legislature is unicameral

The state doesn't have enough money to buy a second camera? I can donate my used cell phone if they need it...

8 posted on 11/06/2014 8:24:45 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think I heard last night that now 35 states will have GOP governors...


9 posted on 11/06/2014 8:28:42 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: SeekAndFind
18 with Republican majorities, have passed laws making it more difficult for people to vote.

Making it more difficult for voter fraud should be the terminology. We have strict voter ID here in Kansas and I had no difficulty voting.

10 posted on 11/06/2014 8:28:43 AM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: glorgau
Hmmmm, seems like this is getting pretty close to the numbers needed to pass Amendments to the Constitution.

Article V.

11 posted on 11/06/2014 8:31:39 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: lonevoice

A very interesting read.


12 posted on 11/06/2014 8:33:54 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: SeaHawkFan
<>Time to repeal the 17th Amendment.<>

Roger that. The next two years will likely be our last and best chance.

13 posted on 11/06/2014 8:34:02 AM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think we should consider this our last opportunity to try and steer this country on course. We blew it last time with W and his lack of putting the veto pen to spending bills passed by his republican house and senate. This has got to STOP!!!

Even the democrat voters that can still add and subtract know this.


14 posted on 11/06/2014 8:34:23 AM PST by biff (WAS)
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To: SeekAndFind

To me, these state legislatures are where we really need to be focused. This is great news - the grass roots is where it’s at. Will be critical if there is going to be a constitutional convention convened. I agree we need to strike while we have the momentum.


15 posted on 11/06/2014 8:34:34 AM PST by Lake Living
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To: SeekAndFind

99.... Dammit Nebraska!


16 posted on 11/06/2014 8:36:04 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: SeekAndFind

I just figured out manually how many houses switched one one party to divided. I also posted it this morning on another post from last night.

I haven’t had time to double verify my comparisons.

In the first column, I will put if they were dem before Tuesday, middle column if they are mixed and the third column if they were formerly repub controlled. (Forgive me if any are incorrect; I am just eyeballing this.)

For instance, MT would be /MT/MT, meaning formerly they were republican controlled and now they are divided.

And MD/MD would be they changed from dem controlled to now divided. ( I couldn’t think of an easier way for me to tally.)

Here are the sources, I compared.

http://www.statescape.com/resources/partysplits/partysplits.aspx

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/11/05/republican-sweep-extends-to-state-level/

Dem Then/ Divided Now / Previous Repub

WA/WA
/MT/MT
CO/CO
NM/NM
AK/AK
MN/MN (Solson mentioned already, but good to note it again)
IA (still divided)
MO/MO
IL/IL
KY (still divided)
WV/WV
/VA/VA
/PA/PA
MD/MD
/NJ/NJ (Sorry about that Christie)
MA/MA
NY (still divided)
ME/ME

So here is my tally. It looks like that we went from republican controlled to mixed in four states out of 18 that are now divided. And there was a change of divided states to red state legislatures to nine, and they were ME,MA,MD, WV,IL, MO, Mn,NM,CO and WA.

This is very heartening.

If anyone has a link with all these changes verified, please post it for us.


17 posted on 11/06/2014 8:37:06 AM PST by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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18 posted on 11/06/2014 8:37:28 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Islam/ISIS = The Ebola of religious/political ideologies!)
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To: SeekAndFind

34 states total have resolved for the Balanced Budget amendment to the constitution. About a dozen of those states have rescinded their resolutions, and about 4 have re-resolved. However, constitutionally, states may *only* be allowed to make a resolution, *not* rescind one that has been made.

So, a Republican congress can, as soon as it is in office, decide on its own to organize an Article V convention. And there is nothing Obama could do to stop it.

Oddly enough, even the Supreme Court cannot stop it, either.

Once 34 states have passed resolutions, that is it. Congress *must* convene. So it is only a formality at this point for congress to resolve to organize a constitutional convention and to send a message to all state legislatures that they *must* provide delegates to that convention.

Importantly, some of the states have also restrained their potential delegates, that they *cannot* agree to any change to the constitution not authorized by their state, under criminal penalty. This alone is enough to prevent any radicalization of the process, at least enough to block the 38 states from changing the constitution unless they really agree with the change.


19 posted on 11/06/2014 8:38:33 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: SeekAndFind

66/99 = 67% that’s override country.


20 posted on 11/06/2014 8:40:21 AM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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