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House speaker helps celebrate remodeled local GOP HQ
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010 10:40

From The Courier:

While it now has more usable space, the Montgomery County Republican Headquarters still almost couldn’t hold all the Republicans celebrating its renovation, including the leader of the Texas House of Representatives.

A throng of elected officials and party faithful attended the headquarters’ open house Tuesday afternoon to meet Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio. Straus kept the energy going with a bold prediction for the Nov. 2 election.

With what Straus termed the revamped, re-energized Republican Party, “We are going to pick up quite a few seats (in Congress),” he said. … “We are about to take our country back and right the wrongs that were done in 2008.”

One of the battles the House faces in the upcoming legislative session will center on redistricting after official census figures come in. …

With Montgomery County now representing one of the state’s strongest Republican bases, it’s a far cry from the party’s beginnings nearly five decades ago.

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Redistricting Battles Spur Wave of Cash
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:46

The Wall Street Journal‘s Brody Mullins and Keith Johnson detail the Republican cash advantage in states crucial to redistricting:

Republicans and Democrats, hoping to pick up seats in Congress through redistricting, are pouring money and political muscle into statehouse races in about 16 states.

State legislatures will next year redraw congressional districts based on the 2010 census …

The key national organizations seeking to influence state elections will spend about $200 million this year, double what they spent in 2006, the most recent comparable contest.

The cash is allowing local candidates to adopt tactics more typically used by national politicians: time on cable TV, advanced polling techniques and direct mailings.

All this is playing out in Baraboo, Wis., where a tiny state-house campaign is being bombarded by money and advice from national organizations such as the AFL-CIO labor union, Planned Parenthood and a Republican group run by former White House strategist Edward Gillespie …

The Republican State Leadership Committee created the Redistricting Majority Project, whose sole purpose is “dedicated to keeping or winning Republican control of state legislatures that will have the most impact on Congressional redistricting in 2011.”

The state races can be critical in determining control of Congress.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:46
GOP pushing hard to regain NH throne
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:39

From The Telegraph in New Hampsire:

When you get down to it, elections are a numbers game, and here’s a number that has state Republicans excited: 27.

That’s the number of GOP candidates vying for seats in the Statehouse who will be on Nashua ballots on Nov. 2, and it’s the most that has been seen in the Democrat-dominated city in many years …

That aggressiveness reflects a statewide push by the GOP, which hopes to use economic concerns to rebound after two election cycles that saw it dethroned as the dominant party in New Hampshire …

Party control of the Statehouse has extra rewards this year because the winner gets to control the redistricting that’s done once every decade.

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Reapportionment: Slight Population Shifts Complicate a Zero-Sum Game
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:36

Bob Benenson of CQ-Roll looks at the latest reapportionment projections:

The country’s balance of population, and hence its balance of political power, continues to shift to the South and West, as it has for the past six decades. The census figures being released in December, which will decide the reapportionment of House seats among the states starting with the 2012 election, will probably show less dramatic changes than in the recent past. But they also could upend much of the advance planning of the nation’s political mapmakers, if the final and official count varies even a little from current projections.

Texas clearly will be the big winner and stands to gain as many as four seats, due in large part to its fast-growing Hispanic population. But it could be limited to a three-seat gain if the state’s population surge proves to be just 38,005 smaller (in a population of 25.3 million) than expected. And similarly minuscule differences — in relative terms, at least — could make the difference for as many as 16 states that might gain, retain or lose congressional seats.

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“Projecting Political Power” in Rocky Top
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:33

The Knoxville News-Sentinel discusses why Republicans are in such great shape in Tennessee:

… The 107th General Assembly, which will be collectively chosen on the same day, will be projecting political power for the next decade.

For that reason, Republican and Democratic organizations in Washington as well as Nashville are paying as much attention – if not more – to a handful of legislative contests in Tennessee’s small towns and big cities …

As a practical political matter, there is no chance Democrats can regain control of the Senate …

In the House … Democrats thus have more challenged seats to defend than do Republicans. Further, 2010 is widely seen as a banner year for Republicans because of perceived voter discontent with President Obama and the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress.

Republicans are trying to tap into that sentiment in the legislative races. The state Republican Party, for example, has erected a billboard in Morristown that features side-by-side pictures of Obama and Larry Mullins, the Democratic nominee for the 10th House District.

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