In the 22 years since the 1994 Republican midterm landslide, the landscape of partisan power in state governments has changed dramatically.  The Republican Party was the minority party in state government for almost seventy straight years before the Gingrich Contract with America transformed not only control of Congress but vitally control of state legislatures, long the hardest bastion of Democrat power in politics and quietly the key to Democrat dominance of American politics. Consider that in 1990, Republicans controlled only six state legislative chambers in America, and Democrats controlled 29 state legislatures.  Today Republicans control 30 state legislative chambers, and Democrats control 11.  The remarkable power of Republicans in state government today goes beyond legislative chambers.  Thirty-one governors are Republican, and only 18 are Democrats.  The map of America from Pennsylvania to the Pacific Coast has precisely three states which have...(Read Full Article)