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9. I Hate That We Have To Do This...

But if we didn't, we'd lose the House majority simply from GOPQ gerrymandering in Texas and Florida. They've got a few other states that are trying hard, too.

NC is still up in the air depending on what our state Supreme Court does (the Democrats hold a 4-3 majority on the NCSC). Right now, we've only got 4/14 seats. The state constitution has requirements for "free and fair elections" (among other protections), like PA does. And the state is pretty evenly divided between R/D registrations. If all goes well at the SC, we could end up with a roughly even split. Ironically, that's about how the districts were apportioned before the GOPQ took over the state legislature back in 2011 and gerrymandered everything all to hell.

Ohio won't be as bad as it could have been, thanks to their state Supreme Court ruling that what their legislature put out was a gross violation of the state's constitutional requirements. With luck, we'll end up with 6-7 seats there vs only 2 out of the 15 that they'd originally mapped out.