je brown won california as he did in 1974 and 1978, absent a wide lapels and bell bottom pants. democrats gained a seat in the california assembly. that is pretty hard because re- district in california produces less than 1% of change in congressional state assembly districts in the course of this decade. in new york, andrew cuomo won by award margin against the republican who could charitably be described again -- as eccentric. i will not use the term straitjacket here. [laughter] successor leads by less than 2000 votes were counted parts seem to vault -- violate the military voting it

act and declined to send out ballots to military members but they transported them to inmates at the cook county jail for [laughter] otherwise, the news was good for the republicans. they now hold the governorship of both houses of the legislature and six of the largest states, texas, florida, pennsylvania, michigan, georgia. but one governorships in pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, gain control of both houses of legislator in each of those states. they gained control in minnesota, montana, and one house and i'll look. in maine and new hampshire in new england, in north carolina and to england in the south. altogether, the figures i got from the national conference of state legislatures show them gaining 125 seats in state senate and 543 seats in the state houses. there is still some counting to do.

we recently had an election on sunday in brazil and a can of the votes and less than five hours. california takes five weeks. there is something wrong with this picture. in any case, we have not got the final tally. they have one more legislative seats than in any election since 1928. they won more than the local political experts, at least the ones i have been in touch with, have predicted. the republicans needed 5 seats for a majority in the path of a house and the 115. they needed four seats in the house and got 13 guarded in its 13 in the michigan house and it was said that was impossible and they ended up winning 20 very dated two and the wisconsin senate, four in the wisconsin house. i understand that republicans have never had a majority and

the minnesota senate prior to this. i need to fact-check that claim. the republicans gained an upper new england 22 seats in the main house and 122 seats in the new hampshire house. new hampshire has one of the nation's largest state legislatures, 400-members. this will have important consequences in politics and could have important consequences in public policy. politically this means the republicans will have the largest advantage they have had r in thee-districting of a congressional states since the 1920's. there was no reapportionment of these states in the 1920's. california and florida will join i/o, washington, arizona as states that get -- where drawing congressional boundaries is the responsibility primarily of non-

partisan commissions rather than of legislatures. in most states, this is the prerogative of the legislature and governor. in north carolina, the governor does not have a veto on redistricting bills. the rebel guns have both houses of legislature in north carolina. in the 29 states with five or more house seats, redistricting can make a significant difference, more so the more districts you have. the lucknow is that -- the outlook now is that republicans will have control of redistricting in 13 states democrats will have control of redistricting in four states with a total of 40 districts. in 12 states, neither party will have control because of partisan balance or because of the existence of the redistricting commissions. where democrats have control,

they have relatively little room to gain advantage. illinois with a projected 18 states, the democratic advantage depends on governor quinn maintaining his narrow lead. in massachusetts and connecticut, democrats already all the seats and massachusetts will lose one in reapportionment and there will be a game of musical chairs with the democratic congress and giving large contributions to the democratic state legislators. and making friends in the state house. maryland is the fourth state and has a strong democratic partisan plan that gives democrats a solid 6-2 advantage pri. in contrast, republicans have control in texas with 36 districts, pennsylvania with a team, these are the projected numbers, the reapportionment will be announced in december. ohio has 16, michigan 14,

georgia 40, north carolina 13, arizona 9, indiana with nine, and wisconsin with age. all of those states are areas where having control of redistricting can be significant in increasing your partisan balance and the house of