Bill, GOPers over in Madison County are already excited because they have been told that Lowe Finney will have the Democrat counties of Gibson and Carroll counties removed from his district and theyll be replaced with the hardcore GOP areas of Henderson and Chester counties.

Lowe Finney is so 2006. I hope he enjoys his one term in the state senate.

The GOP needs to have statewide control so we can finally elect constitutional officers popularly. A hard-charging Republican attorney general can clean up a lot of corruption in state government and put a lot of Democrats in jail. Those tasks go hand in hand, obviously.

Won't Finney still have to run under the current lines in 2010 ? Unless the Senate decides to redraw their own seats before the next census, new lines won't go into effect until 2012.

In any event, on the House side, it's worth pointing out that the Democrats haven't received a majority of the popular vote for their "majority" in over a decade, and grotesque gerrymandering keeps it that way, as it has since after Bill Jenkins became the one and only GOP Speaker since Reconstruction... and that was back in 1969.

Given the numbers that vote for us, once we get control of the drawing process, we could easily win 2/3rds of the House (just like what happened in VA after the similarly disenfranchised state GOP finally busted the Democrat gerrymander), and best of all, up our numbers in Nashville's delegation. To get 40% of the vote with unsupported candidates and only 10% of the representation is appalling.