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Supreme court seats that were open. that will give democrats a majority on that state's supreme court for basically a decade. now, is it weird to talk about a partisan majority on a court? yes, it is. but pennsylvania's partisan majority on the supreme court is now democratic after the most expensive judicial elections in state history. in the big cities of indianapolis and charlotte, north carolina, and orlando, florida, and philadelphia as well as salt lake city in utah, voters in all the cities picked the democratic and or progressive choice for mayor. salt lake city, in fact, looks like it...

Effort and the organizing and the will, you can get people out. >> and some next democratic genius to figure out how to do it in a year that's not divisible by four. chris hayes, the host of "all in." i hereby apologize to your family through you. we'll be right back. stay with us. ♪ ♪ it took the rockettes years to master the kick line.

Still got almost 60% of the seats in the ohio house. because the partisan districts were gerrymandered so badly. that happened in 2012. but according to ohio voters, that should not happen again. it was a vote last night on a constitutional amendment to do districts in that state on a non-partisan basis from here on out. that amendment passed with 71% of the vote. it's not for ohio's seats in congress, this is just for the state legislature. but still. 71% of the vote. that's a big deal. and somewhere in america in law school that tulty housing, lawrence lessig is celebrating ohio or cursing h...

Doesn't sound like an important position for nationwide implications here but follow this. adam edelen, he lost his seat last night. he's going to be replaced by a republican. this is a down ticket race and the result is a huge deal because there's a lot of talk that the very talented mr. edelen was the democratic rising star in kentucky politics and a lot of people were expecting him to run a very tough campaign for the united states senate against rand paul this time next year. now that adam edelen has lost the statewide elected office as auditor, it is a much more open question of whether h...

>> absolutely deci mags? >> i don't think that's an overstatement. i think that, well, so there's bunch of things happening, right? there's a partisan geographical realignment about the south and the south turning over to the republican party. the once solid democratic south. taken a very long time to get there. my favorite example of how long it's taken is kim davis was a democrat -- >> yes. >> until this whole thing went down, why a democrat? a local party machine that got her essentially elected with us a democratic machine and it hadn't been there since the civil war. right? so it has take...