On the other hand, Albany gerrymandering will ensure that these are Republican seats...

Fuckin Sheldon Silver...

"On the other hand, Albany gerrymandering will ensure that these are Republican seats..."

Pro: Democrats get 2 fewer Electoral College votes.

Con: Republicans lose two seats in the House, where they have a (moderately) comfortable majority.

Nope, still a gain for the GOP. Even if the House was split 50-50, I think anyone in either party would be willing to trade a couple of seats there for an advantage in the EC.

And yes, I know the House can't be split evenly (except under certain multi-party solutions that have no bearing in the real world, Bernard Sanders notwithstanding).

Pooter

Just felt like saying that.

Pompous, even if the Dems are still in control in Albany after 2010 and can still gerrymander the redistricting--both pretty big ifs, IMHO--the seats are going to go to places like Utah.

And Utah will elect one more Republican house member. That's not an "if"--I'd bet one of my kidneys on that.

Eh, those votes will probably end up moving out here to California (like everyone else does) so that we can elect a couple more Henry Waxman or Barbara Lee-types. Won't that be a hoot?

Utron - absolutely right about Utah. The Democratic party isn't even in sight here - a truly weird situation for someone who used to live in Cook County.

The first Friday of each month a bunch of us travel from Babylon, L. I. to Staten Island. You can tell which ones are Democrats by the time we get back home. We're all smiling and thier jaws are tight.

Tight jaws on Dem types.

Pat Moynihan here, and i'm stoked!!

Haunting the nasty carcass of Hellary Rotten Clinton is not enough to assuage my mournful spirit. The more she uses the great state of NY for her own evil ends, the more i will put up a spirited defense.

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Yeah, it's kinda annoying being a conservative in NYC... except while conservatives control Congress and the liberals go around shrieking like mad fishwives... I swear, one can get high off the vibe. I think I may die of Schadenfreude.

Living up there for three months this summer proved to me there ARE plenty of conservatives, but then we were up in Orange County living on Camp Buckner and doing our drinking in every bar between USMA and Newburgh.

It's like my naitive MD. A zillion red counties, but the three blue ones are heavily populated enough to tip the scales.