Republicans Now Control Record Number of State Legislative Chambers

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Republicans Now Control Record Number of State Legislative Chambers

(CNSNews.com) –   Republicans added to their historic 2014 gains [1] in the nation’s state legislatures with the addition of five state House chambers and two state Senate chambers in last week’s election, while Democratic control was reduced to levels not seen since the Civil War [2].

Republicans are now in control [3] of a record 67 (68 percent) of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers in the nation, more than twice the number (31) in which Democrats have a majority, according to the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures [4] (NCSL).

“That’s more than at any other time in the history of the Republican Party,” according to NCSL. “They also hold more total seats, well over 4,100 of the 7,383, than they have since 1920.”
 
Source URL: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/after-winning-7-more-seats-gop-dominance-state-legislatures-all

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Pretty amazing but the GOP needs to be careful not to overreach. They have nowhere to go but down at this point.

[Applewood]

Republicans have controlled both the house and senate in PA for some time.  But none of them are even remotely conservative.  Might as well have Democrat majorities.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Very good news. 

[Free Vulcan]

Republicans have controlled both the house and senate in PA for some time.  But none of them are even remotely conservative.  Might as well have Democrat majorities.

Exactly. We don't need a bunch of smug, smirky chest beating 'we won'. We need them to do something.

[Night Hides Not]

Exactly. We don't need a bunch of smug, smirky chest beating 'we won'. We need them to do something.

It could all fall apart by 2020, just in time for redistricting. The stakes will be huge, as the 2010 census paved the way for Republican gains in the House for 2012 and 2014.