So, MSNBC is predicting the Republicans hold the House -

[hedgehog]

How? Is it all due to gerrymandering?

[Dawson Leery]

1. Yes.

[yeoman6987]

3. No Democratic political who is aware thinks that we will get the House until 2022.

This is not shocking.

[yourout]

2. Pretty much.....2012 the election that just keeps giving.

[still_one]

4. and how much salary do they get for this prediction?

[Man from Pickens]

5. Legacy of 2010

GOP has been winning a lot of state legislatures, which do redistricting at their pleasure (limited only modestly by threat of court action).

Democrats do it too, where we can, but the GOP has control of many more states.

You can take a 50/50 state, and carve it up so that one party has a single 95% district and is 45% in all the rest of the districts, making every seat but one in the whole state an uphill climb.

[mucifer]

6. The house we know that . It's the senate that we are freaking out about.

Pass me another beer will you?

[hedgehog]

7. Now ,see, that's where I'm at a disadvantage - I don't drink.

[mucifer]

8. Now might be a good time to start. Unless you can't and then I better shut up.

[hedgehog]

9. Grew up with a lot of alcoholics in the family, so i never started.

Fortunately, the kids seem to take after their Dad and are OK with moderation. That's one bullet we seem to have ducked.

[mucifer]

10. Sending you a hug with no booze.

[hedgehog]

11. .

[Blaukraut]

12. That's why flipping governors and state legislations before 2020 is important

We need to undo the gerrymandering after next census - 2020. Then the house will be in play again.

[Reter]

13. Everyone predicted that

Picking up the House was all but impossible this year.

[Darb]

14. The House is gone until 2022, at least.

2010 will haunt this country for a generation.

[Jester Messiah]

15. I don't think that was ever in question.

And yes, yes it is.