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Last Updated on Friday, 5 November 2010 12:19 Written by rslcpol Friday, 5 November 2010 12:19
From MSNBC:
Republican gains in the House and Senate were the fodder for huge headlines on Wednesday morning, but it is the party’s gains in down-ballot local races that may have created the most lasting protection for the GOP’s new majority in the House of Representatives.
Once every decade, state legislators begin the process of redrawing congressional districts to reflect changes in population, a process that can serve to insulate representatives from future difficult re-elections.
According to the nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures, Republicans will now hold about 53 percent of the total state legislative seats across the country. Republicans gained at least 680 seats, the largest gain by either party since 1966, said NCSL.