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l inloss e is a dramatic and unex; cted upturn in the success of Republican candidate recruitment efforts in the next several weeks, it appears unlikely that the GOP will do more than hold its own in this year’s House of Delegates elections.
Very nearly lost in the furor over the increasingly heated races for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general is the fact that in November all 100 ‘ seats in the House wall be up for grabs. While these contests are, of course, local in nature, in their totality they are a part of the ongoing GOP siege of the General Assembly, the bedrock stronghold of Democratic power in the Commonwealth.
At present there are 65 Democrats, 34 Republicans and one independent in the House. That is the largest number of Republicans to sit in the lower chamber since Reconstruction. Although the number has been unchanged in the last two elections, Republican strategists believe that is only a pause in a long-term trend which will make the GOP the majority party in both the House and the Senate sometime early in the next decade, if not before. In the Senate, whose members, are not up for election this year, the Democrats hold a rnnswWahlv
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