ElectionsGuy
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« on: December 30, 2013, 05:56:00 AM » |
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Glad you made a thread on this. Its very hard to follow state legislative elections, as the media really doesn't bother to go that in depth (and for obvious reasons). You really have to be a political junkie like me to care or know about this. Anyway, the only thing I do with these races is follow the partisan control of both houses for each state. I don't bother to actually go into the elections (too much time) but just to see what flips. And its interesting to see some republicans still surviving in the upper Northeast, and some democrats still surviving in white districts in the Clinton south. Here's a few interesting points I realized.
- If republicans pickup the governor in Arkansas, they will have full control, although many other statewide offices could still belong to the democrats (as they do now)
- In Kentucky, republicans are awfully close to picking up the House, if they do this, as well as pickup the governor in 2015, they will finally have full control of the state.
- As you pointed out Iowa could have full republican control.
- Assuming democrats pickup Pennsylvania governor, they could be awfully close to picking up both state chambers as well (republican majorities are weak) which could lead them to more power.
I might post another thing containing partisan control numbers for all the states.
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