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From The Hill:

Republicans are forecasting widespread gains for the party this fall in legislative chambers across the country, which could give the party control over the redistricting process in a number of key states.

Former RNC Chairman and current head of the Republican State Leadership Committee Ed Gillespie on Thursday predicted a minimum of 10 legislative chamber pick-ups for Republicans in 2010.

“This is the first time a wave election year is taking place in a year that ends in a zero,” Gillespie said at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

“We plan on holding all of our chambers,” he said. “There are four states where we are very confident we’re going to win chambers–Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.”

Gillespie and RSLC Vice Chair Tom Reynolds singled out another eight states where chambers are in play this fall–Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Wisconsin.

If the party could win control of legislatures in at least half of those states, along with winning the other four, it would mark the largest number of Republican chamber pick-ups since 1994.

Along with the 37 gubernatorial races on the table in 2010, states legislatures are a major battleground in the fight over redistricting. In most states, legislative and gubernatorial races will end up determining which party has the upper hand when it comes to re-drawing district maps.

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