Republicans are outspending Democrats 5 to 1 in key statehouse races

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Even with a renewed focus on flipping crucial state legislatures and down-ballot races blue, Democrats are finding themselves outspent by Republicans yet again.

Numbers from liberal Super PAC Forward Majority obtained exclusively by Vox show that Republicans are out-fundraising Democrats more than five to one in key state legislative races including the Pennsylvania and Michigan Houses. Democratic candidates are also being outspent by nearly five to one in the Florida House and Wisconsin Senate; nearly three to one in the Texas House; and by two to one in the Arizona Senate. (These figures exclude outside spending.)

Republicans control more than two-thirds of the state legislatures in the United States, and Democrats are desperately trying to win some chambers back. Besides trying to make an impact on state policy, 2021 congressional redistricting is weighing heavily on Democrats’ minds; state legislatures have the power to redraw congressional maps every 10 years, and Republicans had the upper hand the last time around.

Even though Democrats are smashing their own fundraising records, they are still falling short of the GOP’s numbers. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) has committed to spend $35 million on state races, double what they spent two years ago.

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1. PA still has gerrymandered state districts which are being worked on

The state map had already been thrown out in 2012 so we are under a somewhat revised one.

The biggy was to get our congressional map thrown out (which we did) so that we can hopefully contribute at least 4 new (D) seats to the 23 needed nationwide to re-take the U.S. House. We would have never gotten that far if it hadn't been for a (D) Governor.

There is one more election cycle where we can focus on PA state seats leading up to the 2020 census and if we make sure that Wolf gets re-elected this year, then we will at least have a means to move forward with fair districting beyond what opportunity we had in the past (which was nothing) after the 2010 census.