Political prognostication occasionally rewards the patient analyst with confirmation of suspicions long harbored.

Such satisfaction attended my reading of the State Leadership Initiative’s recently published “ State Leadership 2025 Index ,” which eschews the conventional fixation on gubernatorial ratings or legislative box-score keeping in favor of a comprehensive evaluation of state governance.

The report’s public debut has generated the predictable media frisson. Whether this attention signals a genuine analytical breakthrough or merely the latest iteration of our era’s inexhaustible appetite for scorecards remains to be seen.

The data confirm, at any rate, what astute observers of American federalism have long declared: Republicans’ commanding control of state legislative seats n

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