"Republicans are in better shape overall than at any time since before the New Deal" : Political Science Professor Makes Claim on Republican Performance At State Level

The New York Times reports:

While politics in Washington remain gridlocked, the conservative revolution has been thriving outside the Capitol beltway.

Republicans in states across the Midwest and the South are determined to eviscerate liberal policies and to entrench the political power of the right.

Twenty-three state governments are now under the complete control – governor, house and state senate — of the Republican Party, more than at any time since Dwight D. Eisenhower won the presidency in 1952. Democrats control 14 states. The rest are divided.

Not only are Republicans today in charge of more states, they are exercising their power to gain partisan advantage far more aggressively than their Democratic counterparts.

The struggles of the Democrat party.