Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas
If we can get this right in 2010 it will have a big impact in 2012 2014 16 18 and 2020" said
Ed Gillespie head of Republican State Leadership Committee during a National Public Radio interview.
The winners at the state level will then have the once-in-a-decade opportunity to redraw Congressional Districts according to this years census results which will be implemented by 2012 a presidential election year" reports the
Financial Times.
Political strategists are studying their electoral maps as Republicans & Democrats vie for victory in state legislature as well as in gubernatorial races that could give them huge influence over the composition of Congressional Districts for the next decade" said the
Financial Times.
Republicans appear likely to take control of the House and are hoping for a wave election that would also give them the upper hand at a state level and advantage for years to come.