R.I.P. North East G.O.P.

kos continues his analysis of the demise of the GOP by looking more closely at the Republican representation in the state legislatures, Governors mansions and 2008 electoral votes in the North Eastern United States (CT, DE, ME, MD, MA, NY, NH, NJ, PA, RI, VT, and WV).

Presidential: 5 of 119 electoral votes

West Virginia was the only state to give its electoral votes to John McCain. The closest any of the other states came was New Hampshire, where Obama won by an easy nine points.

Senate: 3 of 24 seats

Two in Maine, one in New Hampshire. That NH seat will flip (D) in 2010. The two Maine senators, now alone in a hostile GOP, are candidates for future party switches. Especially Sen. Olympia Snowe.

House: 18 of 95 seats

Seven of those are in grossly gerrymandered Pennsylvania, and five in grossly gerrymandered New Jersey.

Governors: 3 of 12 states

Voters in liberal Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont have elected Republican governors in large part as a check on the hugely Democratic state legislatures.

State Legislatures: 1 of 24 chambers, 815 out of 2,347 total seats

CT: House 114D-37R Senate 24D-12R DE: House 114D-37R Senate 25D-16R ME: House 96D-54R-1I Senate 20D-15R MD: House 104D-36R-1I Senate 33D-14R MA: House 143D-16R Senate 35D-5R NY: Assembly 107D-41R-2I Senate 32D-30R

NH: House 224D-174R Senate 14D-10R NJ: Assembly 48D-32R Senate 23D-17R PA: House 104D-98R Senate 30R-20D RI: House 69D-6R Senate 33D-4R-1I VT: House 95D-48R-7I Senate 23D-7R WV: House 71D-29R Senate 28D-8R

So of 24 chambers in the region, Republicans only hold the grossly gerrymandered Pennsylvania Senate. In fact, count all the seats in the region, and Democrats hold 1,532 total seats compared to just 815 for the GOP.