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[quote=Anonymous]It’s time to flip those (state) Houses!

[quote]The Pandemic Is Damaging the GOP Brand Everywhere
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/covid-19-upending-battle-state-legislatures/614764/?_gl=1*1ho6dvx*_ga*S25uYnZraUhsN1RiQV9NNXBJckl1SjlDVTRmaG90TWhUZmlNQk15LUdWUER4TWQ0X1p5NXRFTzRUd19YM2RxQQ.. 
The 2020 election undoubtedly offers Democrats their best chance yet to reclaim state legislative chambers across the country.
Although hardly any of the governors grappling with the fiercest coronavirus outbreaks are on the ballot this fall, voters’ verdicts about their performance loom heavily over another electoral battle with enormous implications for the balance of power between the parties over the next decade: the struggle for control of state legislatures.
In polls, voters have given higher marks to Democratic governors who have moved cautiously on reopening than to Republicans who reopened early in response to President Donald Trump’s cues. That may offer Democrats their best chance to overcome the GOP’s entrenched advantage in state legislatures—which next year will draw local legislative and congressional-district lines that will govern elections through 2030.

“COVID-19 and the concerns that surround that—everything from the health concerns people have to concerns about the economy and school—it’s the issue in the 2020 campaign, without a doubt,” Bob Trammell, the Democratic minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives, told me, echoing the sentiment of Democrats elsewhere. Governor Brian Kemp, one of the Republicans who reopened early, “may not be on the ballot,” Trammell added, but “his response to COVID is very much on the ballot.”
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