From US News and World Report:

The Republican State Leadership Committee, an organization that focuses on GOP state legislative races reports that the American political landscape has changed dramatically over the last two years. “The 2010 state legislative elections,” the committee says, “have become a referendum on the Democrat approach to the economy and government spending at all levels.”

The committee’s September’s 2010 analysis says, “In state after state, Democrat governors and legislatures responded to the economic crisis by increasing taxes and failing to cut spending, mirroring the approach so aggressively pursued by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats.”
The upshot of all this is that the move by voters, especially independents, back toward the Republicans could hand the GOP the pens with which it can redraw congressional lines in a number of important states–thus altering the makeup of the Congress for the next decade.

Right now the state leadership committee is projecting the GOP will pick up close to 30 seats combined in the critical, for redistricting purpose, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania state Houses which, when coupled with its control of the state Senates in these states and wins in the gubernatorial contests, will allow the GOP to draw 48 U.S. congressional districts, based on current estimates, without input from the Democrats.

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