From the Los Angeles Times:
A bullish report from the Republican State Leadership Committee released Thursday adds Illinois to the list of Democrat-controlled state houses in play this election season.
The report increases the number of expected Republican pick-ups to six legislative chambers — adding the North Carolina and Michigan houses, with at least 11 other Democrat-controlled chambers solidly in play. As the organization has in the past, it predicts that Democrats will make no gains this election season in state house control.
“Voters have dramatically moved away from the Democratic Party and in the direction of a strong crop of fresh new Republican candidates seeking office,” the report says.