Hm: Could the GOP be running the House for a while?
Good news for John Boehner & the GOP…?
Before the election, I highlighted a report arguing that Republican control of state legislatures would end up earning them about 11 seats because of redistricting. The fact that the House total barely budged in a very good year for Democrats nationally — and in which House Democrats won the popular vote — suggests that this probably played a role.
This is especially clear if you take a look at the share of House seats won by Democrats in states where Republican-controlled legislatures redistricted in 2011 and 2012, and compare that to the share of the vote President Obama won.
The bad news for Democrats? The next Census isn’t for another eight years and making big gains in the House will be nearly impossible until 2022 when districts are redrawn.
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NigelTufnel
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 12:22amPretty good insight here by Meredith. As you know Gov. john kasuich took the democrats to the woodshed two years ago here in Ohio. We lost 3 seats and John essentially busted the dems down to only 4 winable districts. The dems put an amendment to the Ohio Constitution to create a separate panel to redistrict. It was shot down 2-1 as Ohio rather likes the new lines. Cleveland and Toledo used to be able to influence 5 districts and now they can only influence 2. Yes a democratic governor could redraw the lines but he would need both of Ohio’s house which the gop currently has. In another stroke of genious, the district that Marcy Kapture(d) won 2 years ago has a nuclear power plant, an air national guard base, two ethanol plants, a bp refinery, and aging steel plants belching out plenty o carbon. She may as well vote with the republicans and so should her successors.
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