And that seemingly has been the under-reported story of this election with all of the emphasis on the US Senate flipping to the GOP (and to a lesser degree, an additional 12 seats in the US House). However, starting with the 2010 TEA Party election (face it, it was the TEA Party that dragged the GOP over the line in stopping the Progressive domination of both chambers in Congress and Obama), the Republicans started marching through the States – voters preferred their policies over the Progressive Democrats. While here in NH there was a loss of the NH House (big time) and the NH Exec. Council, that was reversed this week.
But the magnitude of how much of the country the Democrats have lost is well shown by this graphic:
Two thirds of all of the chambers (upper and lower regardless of what they are called in each state) are now Republican controlled. And voters put them there (regardless of what the Dems say otherwise) – the will of the People. This means that the legislation coming from them should be more inline with traditional American values than not – but certainly not the socialistic Progressive ones (that of foreign origin and CERTAINLY not concerning American values). And even with those crying out that the TEA Party movement has died, well, it still is working to bring the GOP NOT further to the right but back down to its roots. This is not the mark of a “regional party” as Democrats & pundits alike have scornfully blathered.
“Combined with unexpected victories in gubernatorial races in Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts, the Republicans are poised to control a higher percentage of state governments than at any point in the past 25 years.
With a few dozen state legislative races still undecided, Republicans have scored a net gain of more than 250 seats across the nation’s 99 legislative chambers, according to an analysis by Ballotpedia, which tracks state-level elections.
Republicans took the majority in nine chambers–winning the Colorado Senate, the Maine Senate, the Minnesota House, the Nevada House and Senate, the New Hampshire House, the New Mexico House, the New York Senate and the West Virginia House. The GOP is set to control at least 64 of the 99 chambers–with two still up for grabs.” (H/T: Daily Signal)
Detailed state by state analysis / breakdowns here. Another looks at why this is important here:
Describing just shifts in partisan control understates the magnitude of the GOP wave in the states, however, because it ignores the fact that more often than not, state legislatures already under Republican control got more firmly Republican and legislatures previously under Democratic control got less firmly Democratic. Tim Storey, who analyzes legislative elections for the National Conference of State Legislatures, reports that Republicans nationwide appear to have netted as many as 375 seats, giving them something like 56 percent of the 7,383 legislative seats in the country. You have to go back to the 1920s to find such a level of Republican strength in state capitals.
