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The Cook Political Report could not find a way for Republicans to take over the House of Representatives. However, it did find "lean Republican" and "tossup" races that could shrink the Democratic majority. Some districts are "lean Democrat" and cray things happen, so even a simple majority is, no matter how unlikely, mathematically possible. We cannot assume the blue wave will result in having a veto-proof HOR.

 
Actually, you have 225 blue seats. Only a handful of democratic held toss ups..... not enough to threaten the majority and even more republican held toss-ups that are opportunities for Dems.

Even few dem toss-ups according to Sabato.

Most people are projecting a Democratic PICKUP in the House, not a Republican improvement.


What Republicans should be most worried about, however, are Democratic gains in statehouses. Its time to re-draw congressional maps. The Republicans gaining statehouses in 2010 made their life much easier as they could control the House without even getting 50% of the vote. In 2022, that situation could be reversed.

 
It is always time to redraw congressional district maps. Gerrymandering should be illegal. Republicans just do it to suppress the Democratic vote, not to help their states.

How many HOR seats do you think will flip from Republican to Democrat?
 
The Cook Political Report could not find a way for Republicans to take over the House of Representatives. However, it did find "lean Republican" and "tossup" races that could shrink the Democratic majority. Some districts are "lean Democrat" and cray things happen, so even a simple majority is, no matter how unlikely, mathematically possible. We cannot assume the blue wave will result in having a veto-proof HOR.

If it is a blue wave we won't need a veto proof majority!
 
It is always time to redraw congressional district maps. Gerrymandering should be illegal. Republicans just do it to suppress the Democratic vote, not to help their states.

How many HOR seats do you think will flip from Republican to Democrat?
We are always going to need reapportionment, I like the CA model where it is done by a bipartisan commission. That's right, big scary blue state CA that according to some is a victim of D control, gave up that party power to better serve the people.
 
Quick snapshot of Florida's 27 members of the U.S. House of Representatives:

Florida has 27 congressional districts, currently tied with New York for 3rd most in the country. The delegation is more evenly split, with 14 Republicans and 13 Democrats, after Democrats won two seats in the southern part of the state in 2018.

4 competitive races in 2020, with none expected to flip. The GOP incumbent in CD15 lost in the primary. Likely results: CD26 and CD27 DEMs hold; CD15 and CD16 GOPs hold.


Florida Legislature: 40 state senators; 120 state representatives

A total of 20 seats out of the Florida State Senate’s 40 seats are up for election in 2020. Republicans maintained their majority in the 2018 elections, controlling 23 seats to Democrats' 17.
Ballotpedia has identified four of the races as battlegrounds, one of which is a Democrat-held district while the other three are Republican-held districts.


Current composition of State Representatives: 46 DEMs, 71 GOPPERs, 3 vacancies

 
Which seats do you all think are most likely to flip from red to blue?
 
Maintaining the House will not be so difficult, 'they control the purse" and we've seen Republican senate use that purse to feed the wealth, by not passing bills unless they have provisions to feed the wealthy. That's why we need to take the senate.
But this also needs to happen on the State Level. Interstate governance has abused so much within states that wreak havoc upon and across the nation. This goes all the way down to "city councils".
Republicanism of Today... is a damaging force to America's Advancements.

It's great to get the Federal Congress, but it is also important to get the in-state congress as well. Then we can have unilateral progressive developments from the bottom up.

We can also fix the Voting System, where there are enough Polling Places where people don't have to stand in excessively long lines. We can fix all the things that damage the voice of the people, and we can push to have 'Federal, State and Local Campaign Financing"... as well as we the people and push to remove the claim of Corporation as Person. Which pits money against the voice of the people. Any Lobbying Campaigning, can clearly be understood by the people as to where those voices are coming from and what's behind them.

These things are why Democracy was designed for an "INTELLEGENT SOCIETY".... it was not designed for drama addicts. Although we know it was structured for the wealthy, white men, as they hijacked it and claimed voting was for white men, as the only one considered as Person, if he was a land or business owners,... over time, the poor white man got to vote, but his vote was controlled by the wealthy, so technically he had little voice, but much gerrymandered dictations dominating him like a groomed serf.
It took a while for women to get to vote, but the system of 'white nationalism of wealthy white male dominance" still influenced the early votes of women, because the society was still seeing the woman with an apron and housewife, dependent on the white man to provide for her. When the vote came to Blacks without the Segregationist Voter Discrimination and Repressions, only then did white women figure out that the many steps that of Civil Rights movements that led to the 1964 Civil Rights movement was something she too could ride to claim voice, not just in how she votes, but the fact that she could earn her own income. These movements were supported by the more liberal minded who leaned to equality, but there were as there still are many that want to cling to ideology taught to them by their parents and grandparents who came from the Jim Crow groomed society, even though they pushed against it, some parts they did not rid themselves of, because it was embedded in their childhood developmental concepts.
Today, the young from grade schools, through University... are now aware that without Equality For All, they too don't have the Equality their previous generations thought they had.

When we as a people take back the Government and Make it For and About and Of The People... we will Rebuild, Unions, we will create a system of trade that understand that America must produce no less than 40+% of what it consumes. This can bring durable products back to the forefront, and repairable products that can again support a robust system of repair and replacement part labor markets... because it's conducive to environmental friendly conservation of raw materials. This means we move away from the 'society that big industry forced upon us, of high cycle disposable goods".. which have filled out landfills with toxicity that may last form 100 yrs of more...
The details is what is exist in the principle of "Intelligence within Democracy"... is far more than a whim, and it cannot tolerate Republicanism and its devotion to corporate control of society.


This link tells of the damages of what Republicanism Thrust Upon Us.
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We Must Embrace "Intelligence within Democracy"
and
Abolish Republicanism's Confederacy Ideology
 
We are always going to need reapportionment, I like the CA model where it is done by a bipartisan commission. That's right, big scary blue state CA that according to some is a victim of D control, gave up that party power to better serve the people.
“Bipartisan” being code for left wing. They have some hand selected controlled opposition and then far left activists.
 
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