11-07-2018, 04:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-07-2018, 04:59 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-07-2018, 02:13 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(11-06-2018, 10:25 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Well, at the least, President Trump has not consolidated dictatorial power. He has no ability to pull a self coup. Governorships have heavily turned D.
As far as I could tell, governorships only saw a small Democratic gain. Florida was a big loss. I need to check again though.
Without Democratic governors and state houses, Republican extreme gerrymandering continues.
Wisconsin threw out Walker by a narrow margin, so that's one good thing. Ohio stayed red in its governor's mansion though, by 4%. I don't know when sanity will dawn in Ohio. But the three rust belt states that put Trump in the White House now have Democratic governors, and so does Kansas, a flip in a deep red state. Nevada went blue too. Georgia looks like it's going to stay in the claws of Trump corruption for sometime to come, and so does Texas.
It's better, but scarely "heavily D." It's 27-23 R for now, with two of those R victories still not nailed down. And some of those R governors are moderates in blue states like MA, MD and VT.
The Democrats flipped about 350 state legislature seats so far, below average for a midterm. Democrats had lost 900 since Obama was elected. Six chambers flipped, and others got more purple. Supermajorities increased in a few places. Much more left to change. Republican legislatures and governors have done a great deal to purge voter rolls of ethnic groups they don't like, erect obstacles to their voting, and gerrymandered their districts to deprive them of representation.