How the GOP won the states
Allysia Finley:
The GOP was playing the long game by taking over state legislatures they are building a bench for future candidates to Congress. Some of its best candidates this year were state legislators like Joni Ernst. If they can show that Republican policies work, they ahve the makings of a long term majority in the US. The Democrats are doing a good job of showing that liberalism does not work.
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You might say they overachieved: In 2010 Republicans picked up 675 legislative seats, flipped 21 chambers, and won complete control of 25 statehouses. This year Mr. McCollum credits a “perfect storm” of strong candidates, effective strategy and a highly charged political atmosphere that delivered 69 of 99 state legislative chambers to Republican hands, exceeding the party’s previous high-water mark of 64 in 1920.
Republicans this year flipped nine state legislative chambers: the Colorado Senate; Maine Senate; Minnesota House; Nevada Senate and Assembly; New Hampshire House; New Mexico House and West Virginia House and Senate.
Next year, the GOP will control the legislatures and governorships in 23 states, while Democrats will enjoy hegemony in seven—California, Delaware, Oregon, Hawaii, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Bolstering the GOP’s ranks in state government, Republicans will have 31 lieutenant governors, 28 secretaries of state and 27 attorneys general.
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The GOP was playing the long game by taking over state legislatures they are building a bench for future candidates to Congress. Some of its best candidates this year were state legislators like Joni Ernst. If they can show that Republican policies work, they ahve the makings of a long term majority in the US. The Democrats are doing a good job of showing that liberalism does not work.
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