and this week he unseated the democratic incumbent, ted strikeland, the four year ohio governor and 20 year congressman. this is one of 11 governorships that the republicans picked up from democrats, bringing the tally to 29 governorships for the republicans. governors are powerful. they are powerful because state legislatures are granted the power by the u.s. constitution to curb this is known as redistricting. >> what's the connection between redistricting and governor? >> it's quite powerful, john. in most states, not california anymore, where they have taken it away from the legislature. if you get both houses in the legislature and the governorship, you can draw the districts up and take all the democrats with about 90% democrats, and you get all the other districts with yourself at 60%. that's the way tom delay turned texas around and they are going to turn texas around again. >> the population of the congressional district is based upon the census. correct? >> right. >> it's a population component that determines the district. >> that's going to give -- >> when you get into draw