From Livingstondaily.com:

Reynolds and Gillespie told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor that they hope to raise $40 million to spend in targeted legislative races.

Reynolds said a surge in control in key states could give the GOP another 20 to 25 relatively safe seats in Congress for the rest of the decade.

Previous wave elections — the Democrats’ post-Watergate gains of 1974 and the Republican congressional takeover of 1994 — happened right after new congressional boundaries were drawn. This one is potentially unique because a wave, if it comes, would elect the architects of not only policy, but congressional boundaries for the coming decade.

“The states are very consequential in people’s lives in terms of our roads, our schools, our home values, our health care, our communities, our safety and our neighborhoods,” Gillespie said.

But the 2010 elections, he said, are “especially significant because of the impact that these chambers will have on redistricting.”

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