Conservative success in GOP states

 Andrew Malcolm:

While national media focus attention on Washington issues and political skirmishes, across the country, Republican governors and state legislatures are quietly building an enduring foundation of legislative districts, laws, state rules, and institutions that strongly favor the GOP in coming years and elections.

This stunning matrix of Republican domination state-by-state reflects a growing voter preference for GOP policies at that level, dating back to 2010 and Barack Obama’s disastrous first midterm elections.

Collectively, voters then handed down a devastatingly negative verdict on the first two years of the Obama-Biden administration and the rule of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. With only one recent exception (George W. Bush in 2002), first-midterm elections like the ones coming in just 49 weeks, usually turn out badly for a sitting president’s party.

In 2010, Democrats lost six Senate and 63 House seats — worst drubbing in nearly six decades. That January, the GOP added another Senate seat, in Massachusetts no less. It was a strong reaction against the chaotic introduction of ObamaCare and the creeping realization that Obama’s oft-voiced promises about keeping your doctor and insurance were lies.

Additionally, a nearly trillion-dollar stimulus bill managed by Joe Biden, who promised that hundreds of thousands of “shovel-ready jobs” were just around the corner, proved ineffective in ending the 2008 recession.

Washington media always deem Washington developments as far more important than state and local news because, after all, that’s where they are and they’re far more important than state and local media. That’s how they got so shocked by Donald Trump’s 2016 upset.

Less noticed at the time — and even since — were the far worse voter verdicts delivered then on Democrats at state and local levels across the country. Republicans had a net gain of six governorships and nearly 1,000 state legislative seats, flipping control of 20 state legislative chambers to the GOP.
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There is more.

The migration from blue states to red states is another indicator of GOP success.  The economies in red states are also more robust.  If the migration were going the other way people would be lowering their standard of living in most cases.

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