From Washington Post:

For Democrats facing the likely prospect of losing control of the House of Representatives for the next two years, there is an even scarier thought: losing it for the next decade.

Republican wins in Tuesday’s midterm elections are expected to sweep far down the ballot to state legislatures across the country, giving the GOP a pronounced political advantage as the parties tackle redistricting next year. It’s the legislatures that are tasked with the once-a-decade, complicated and partisan process of redrawing congressional boundaries based on population shifts gleaned from the census.

In most states, the party that controls the political process controls the map. Republican operatives are predicting that the GOP will pick up as many as 500 additional seats, and wrestle majorities in legislatures away from the Democrats in anywhere from 10 to 18 states.

“We’ve got a minimum of 11 or 12 chambers going our way – and it could be as high as 17,” said Chris Jankowski, director of the Republican State Leadership Committee’s REDMAP project.

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