The Importance of State Legislative Races

Glenn Thrush:
“Barack Obama has spent well over $1 billion on his political
campaigns, but it’s the $20 million to $30 million Democrats didn’t
shell out three years ago that is costing the White House as he slogs
through the first six months of his second term. The GOP’s wildly
successful, low-key and stunningly cheap campaign to seize state
capitals in 2010 has come back to haunt Obama and his fellow Democrats.
It’s now clear that the party’s loss of 20 state legislative chambers
and critical Midwestern governorships represents an ongoing threat every
bit as dangerous as the more publicized Republican takeback of the
House that same year.”