Democratic Breeze Being Felt in Fight for State Legislatures

[deadparrot]

It is well-known to political analysts and strategists that Democrats may make significant gains in the House and Senate in the November elections. And now a leading analyst of state legislatures says that this apparent pro-Democratic trend almost certainly will percolate down to the thousands of contests this year for state legislative seats.

“All of the indicators are that this is more of a challenging year for Republicans than Democrats,” Tim Storey, a senior fellow at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), told CQPolitics.com Wednesday. “The Democrats have the wind at their backs right now for control of states.”

Storey said that one factor working in the Democrats’ favor is the historic trend of the opposition party netting state legislative seats in midterm elections. In the past sixty years, the party controlling the White House has suffered a net loss in state legislative seats in nearly every midterm election. The only exception was in 2002, when Republicans made seat gains in the balloting that followed the 2001 terrorist attacks.

But that aberration certainly will not be repeated this year. Democratic wins in special elections this year might presage larger party gains in November. In the first six months of 2006, Democrats won 11 of the 13 special elections that resulted in a change in partisan control of the district.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20060824/pl_cq_politics/democraticbreezebeingfeltinfightforstatelegislatures

[AX10]

1. K and R!

[EST]

2. Perhaps I'm being a little too sensitive, but it really pisses me

off when some jasper starts trying to soft peddle republican losses at midterm elections as the result of some sort of inevitable historical precedent, rather than a direct consequence of incompetence, dishonesty, and the other demonstrations of a lack of integrity and humanity.

The fundamental truth is that most republiclowns, especially elected ones, are without real consciences, possessing mere facades, constructed to resemble real people, instead of the crooks they really are.

The sooner the voting public discovers this and kicks them out, the better.

[TexasLawyer]

3. Yes--The GOP is being fired

for cause!

[gully]

6. Exactly!

eom

[DLnyc]

4. It's hard for the repub machine to target thousands of small contests.

They're (the rethugs) very good at crushing a single national candidate via round-the-clock talking points on their 'public' networks and on right-wing radio. It's a lot harder for them to target thousands of small individual contests all over the country.

I think activism on a local scale has the potential to really turn around state governments all across the country, even in the 'redder' states. This could lead to redistricting, chasing out election fraud engineers and creating a strong base of support for Dem national races in 2008.

In other words, seems like a good thing to me!

K & R

[DeepModem Mom]

5. K&R!

[oneinok]

7. everywhere but in Oklahoma

The Democrats in Oklahoma are going to lose the state senate. It is very bad here and no one knows what to do about it.

[FogerRox]

8. can ya smell it

smells like VICTORY

[DesertRat]

9. K&R!

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