Here's where repukes still have an edge: Gerrymandering.

[cali]

It's why we have little chance of taking back the House for some years.

Gerrymander watch: NC part of a national trend
Post on November 8, 2012 by Rob Schofield No Comments

Yesterday we reported that despite casting 76,525 more votes for Democratic congressional candidates, North Carolinians will be represented by nine or ten Republicans and only three or four Democrats in the U.S. House. The reason for this, of course, is the absurd gerrymandering performed by the GOP legislature.

Not surprisingly, however, North Carolina is far from the only state to suffer such a fate. As the folks at Think Progress report, it looks like Americans as a whole voted for a slightly Democratic or evenly divided U.S. House of Representatives.

The current count: Repubs 233, Dems 192.

http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2012/11/08/gerrymander-watch-nc-part-of-a-national-trend/

More on this:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/07/1159631/americans-voted-for-a-democratic-house-gerrymandering-the-supreme-court-gave-them-speaker-boehner/?mobile=nc

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/11/07/how_ridiculous_gerrymanders_saved_the_house_republican_majority.html

[rock]

1. Can't we do anything about it?

For instance, will getting a saner SCOTUS have any effect?

[cali]

2. That's a good question.

It's way out of control and it basically puts the House out of reach for dems.

[dawg]

3. This is why state and local elections are so important.

State legislatures do this.

Do NOT vote Republican for any state office - not even if it's your brother-in-law.

[Coyotl]

4. This election illustraters how scandalous their cheating has been.

Acting in opposition to the principles of the Constitution to partisan advantage is something a future court might reject upon sufficient challenge.

Now the evidence exists, so Forward I say.