5.

North Carolina

. Looking at the numbers from previous electoral district trends wont tell you the full story here. North Carolina's elected Government was in a different place two years ago during the Presidential Elections. In fact, North Carolina has been in the middle of a storm for a few years now with a tyrannical Republican party in the state. That isn't really an exaggeration (Exhibit

,

,

). The gross extent of their perversion of the law has sparked weekly protests in the capital every single Monday for the past five years.

. One of the under reported stories of Tuesday's Blue Wave was the restoration of law and order in North Carolina (and for real, not like when

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Trump says it).

(PDF) that that North Carolina GOP had acted in a racist way to gerrymander the state, the NC GOP took the case took the case to the Supreme Court and the Court (then 4-4) sent the case back to the Federal Court Tribunal where the original decision was held up upon yet another appeal to the Tribunal of Federal Judges in North Carolina. Although the GOP had stalled sufficiently to stop the redistricting from taking effect in the 2018 elections, and the court ruled it had to be

ready before 2020

but the current (gerrymandered) maps would stand for 2018. On Tuesday, the GOP in NC won the Congressional popular vote in the state by

only one point

. Yet, the GOP held all their 10 seats in the state. Based on voting trends, and a small percentage gain in voter turnout over what showed up in 2016 (4.4M in 2012, 4.8M in 2016, 3.7M in 2018) with those fair maps and Democrats can easily expect 2-3 pickups in the House in 2020, independent from the results of the Senate race, because the state has been so horribly gerrymandered that a few (2-4) Republican districts are likely toast. They held off the Wave this year, they wont in 2020. In other good news from North Carolina, they broke the super-majority in the State Senate and flipped the State Supreme Court into the hands of Democrats, thanks in part to a

(Democrat ran as a GOP judge to split votes and help elect Democrats, including a