by Sandy » Sun Nov 11, 2018 9:48 pm
Actually, as time has passed since Tuesday night, the size and scope of the Democrat's victory is becoming apparent. It's a bigger shift of seats in the house than the 2010 reversal of the house two years into Obama's first term, and the Democrats kept the senate then, too, mainly because there weren't that many seats they had to defend. A lot of state houses slipped out of their hands, too, but not as many as the Republicans lost on Tuesday.
The lawsuit that caused the Pennsylvania supreme court to switch the district lines prior to this election affects 16 states, and I'd have to look it up to see which those are. I know Wisconsin is one, and Texas. State legislature lines will also change, but the Democrats did well across the board on Tuesday, even in traditionally Republican areas. It was a well rounded sweep of objectives. They won the senate seat in Alabama in a special election, and Tuesday they flipped congressional seats in states like Oklahoma, Utah, South Carolina and Texas.
Personally, I think independent, bi-partisan commissions should draw congressional district lines. Just sit down and use existing county and city boundaries to put congressional disticts together based on geographic units, not the political base of voters. People who think that they are entitled to an advantage because they are the party in power do not understand the principle of Gerrymandering or why that is supposed to be illegal in the United States.