Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 12:03     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Democrats are only 3 seats away from flipping the Wisconsin Senate.
https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-democrats-report-record-breaking-fundraising-haul


Wow!!

Wisconsin Democrats raised more than $10 million between late March and the end of June, according to campaign finance reports filed Wednesday evening. The party is touting the haul as the most money it has ever raised in a three-month period.

By comparison, the party reported raising about $400,000 in the same period in 2016.



Yeah, The GOP state legislature making people vote in person in the middle of a pandemic was very costly for their party.

P.S. 80% of the GOP state legislators voted absentee in that election where they made the state vote in person.
https://amp.jsonline.com/amp/3277865001?__twitter_impression=true


Of course they did. Just like Trump rails against voting by mail even though he has done if repeatedly.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 12:02     Subject: Re:Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not just Texas. Also Pennsylvania and Georgia

And Wisconsin and Michigan and North Carolina. This is a few weeks old but is a good overview.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/06/democrats-trump-rout-redistricting-349053

And Minnesota and Ohio and Iowa. Here’s an overview from Flippable:
https://flippable.org/our-targets/

And a handy list from the head of the DLCC:

Arizona House: 2 seats

Arizona Senate: 3 seats

Iowa House: 4 seats

Michigan House: 4 seats

Minnesota Senate: 2 seats

North Carolina House: 6 seats

North Carolina Senate: 5 seats

Pennsylvania House: 9 seats

Pennsylvania Senate: 4 seats

Texas House: 9 seats
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:54     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Democrats are only 3 seats away from flipping the Wisconsin Senate.
https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-democrats-report-record-breaking-fundraising-haul


Wow!!

Wisconsin Democrats raised more than $10 million between late March and the end of June, according to campaign finance reports filed Wednesday evening. The party is touting the haul as the most money it has ever raised in a three-month period.

By comparison, the party reported raising about $400,000 in the same period in 2016.



Yeah, The GOP state legislature making people vote in person in the middle of a pandemic was very costly for their party.

P.S. 80% of the GOP state legislators voted absentee in that election where they made the state vote in person.
https://amp.jsonline.com/amp/3277865001?__twitter_impression=true
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:51     Subject: Re:Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Anonymous wrote:Not just Texas. Also Pennsylvania and Georgia

And Wisconsin and Michigan and North Carolina. This is a few weeks old but is a good overview.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/06/democrats-trump-rout-redistricting-349053
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:34     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Democrats are only 3 seats away from flipping the Wisconsin Senate.
https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-democrats-report-record-breaking-fundraising-haul


Wow!!

Wisconsin Democrats raised more than $10 million between late March and the end of June, according to campaign finance reports filed Wednesday evening. The party is touting the haul as the most money it has ever raised in a three-month period.

By comparison, the party reported raising about $400,000 in the same period in 2016.



Yeah, The GOP state legislature making people vote in person in the middle of a pandemic was very costly for their party.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:33     Subject: Re:Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Anonymous wrote:Not just Texas. Also Pennsylvania and Georgia


Lots of others, too. The Democrats only need to flip 30 individual state legislative seats to flip EIGHT chambers in November.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:32     Subject: Re:Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Focus on states where Dems get the most bang for buck - so go with some of the swing states with Dem governors and both chambers controlled by GOP - that's MI, NC, PA, and WI. If you are loaded, donate to Dem state house/senate candidates. If not, then pick one chamber and concentrate your money there with the goal of flipping at least one of the two chambers. Doing so gums up GOP gerrymandering and, ideally, halts the overly GOP tilt of state and congressional delegations out of step with their constituents (believe 55% of MI residents voted Dem but they comprise only 45% of delegation - WTH!). Donate now as COVID has scrambled the ground game of voter contact and campaigns need resources to get out their base. Then donate again when you are next able to do so.

Finally, robust state races lift the boats of Dem candidates up ballot - ideally, the state candidate wins, the congressional/Senate candidate wins/incumbent reelected, and Biden rides the wave all the way to the White House.

Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:25     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Anonymous wrote:Democrats are only 3 seats away from flipping the Wisconsin Senate.
https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-democrats-report-record-breaking-fundraising-haul


Wow!!

Wisconsin Democrats raised more than $10 million between late March and the end of June, according to campaign finance reports filed Wednesday evening. The party is touting the haul as the most money it has ever raised in a three-month period.

By comparison, the party reported raising about $400,000 in the same period in 2016.


Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:18     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Democrats are only 3 seats away from flipping the Wisconsin Senate.
https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-democrats-report-record-breaking-fundraising-haul
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:14     Subject: Re:Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Not just Texas. Also Pennsylvania and Georgia
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:10     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
In the Texas House, Democrats only need to flip nine seats to take the majority.

“The most consequential down-ballot fight, however, is for the Texas House, where Democrats are nine seats away from the majority. Republicans are hoping to flip back some of the 12 seats they lost in 2018, but even then, Democrats are working with a wide offensive battlefield, targeting at least the 17 seats where Republicans won by single digits in 2018.

"We've been sounding the alarm for months all across the county about how competitive Texas is, from the top of the ballot all the way down," Austin Chambers, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, said in an interview. "For us, Texas is a top priority. We're gonna spend several million dollars and spend whatever it takes" to defend the House majority.

Chambers said there is "absolutely a path" for Democrats to flip the House. As for Trump's impact down-ballot, Chambers said he expects the president to carry Texas but that the RSLC is focused on holding the House majority "regardless of what his margin is."
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/24/texas-republicans-election-2020/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:01     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Critically important as the 2020-2024 cycle will set new boundaries for local and congressional districts based on 2020 census data.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 11:01     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Anonymous wrote:Demographics are not on the GOP's side. We've known that for a long time. Their pathetic response to Covid may speed things up.


Demographics haven’t been on the GOP’s side for a while now. But with gerrymandering, the GOP has managed to gain advantages it didn’t deserve in many states.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 10:59     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
Demographics are not on the GOP's side. We've known that for a long time. Their pathetic response to Covid may speed things up.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2020 10:58     Subject: Flipping more state legislative chambers in 2020?
It’s time to flip those (state) Houses!

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.”