If Wisconsin Democrats win the trifecta by 2014...

[Gass3268]

What Krazen said. The congressional map isn't that bad, as it is still theoretically possible for the Democrats to win 6 out of the 8 seats, but the Senate and Assembly maps are brutal, especially around Milwaukee. Also even if they got the trifecta back they can't do mid-decade redistricting. The constitution states that redistricting will only be done in the beginning of each decade after the census.

[Gass3268]

Yeah, the Assembly is going to Republican for the next decade unless there is a wave that is probably greater then 2006. The Senate is still possible, but the Democrats would only have a very small majority. Only way to reverse this map will be to win the 2018 governor race. 

[Gass3268]

Minnesota actually looks like a more promising prospect for a mid-decade Democratic redistricting. 

Won't happen. Not the way politics are done in Minnesota, as far as I know.

Indeed. The "Minnesota nice" label applies in politics, too. Any pol or party who gets too self-serving usually gets served the door by the voters. Things can still be partisan, but partisanship must be tempered.

Same reason why you would never see the Democrats try to split up the Twin Cities and send them into the suburbs and why you would never see the Republicans try to consolidate the Twin Cities into one district and bring the suburbs into the outer city.