State House Tsunami

With all the national media attention focused on the U.S. Senate a big story was overlooked last night.  The GOP may now have more power in the state legislatures than at any time since the 1920s. 

• Going into the 2010 elections, Democrats held 60 partisan legislative chambers and Republicans held 36, with a couple of ties.

• It looks like the GOP has picked up an astounding 20 chambers, including both houses in Alabama, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Wisconsin and additional chambers in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

• In total legislative seats, it is possible that after all the results are posted, Republicans will have won a nationwide majority. 

The Minnesota State Senate hasn't been controlled by Republicans since the state made candidates run by partisan designation in 1972.  The state legislatures in Alabama and North Carolina have not been controlled by Republicans since Reconstruction.   In New England, a place where the GOP was written off as all but dead, the Maine legislature flipped Republican. 
The Texas and Tennessee Houses went from virtually tied to massive Republican gains. The gains in Texas were so big that the Republicans no longer need the Democrats to get state constitutional amendments out of the state legislature.
Keep these new legislatures in prayer and hold them accountable to following the Constitution.