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It’s only the end of the second week of the 2019 legislative session, and politics is in the air, in the Statehouse corridors, and in the minds of both Democrats and Republicans. Both sides started the week with preemptive political strikes, while in the background officials, lawmakers, lobbyists and assorted hangers-on were already wondering whether Gov. Chittenden is heavily Democratic, so the making the whole county one Senate district is a great deal for Democrats, all but guaranteeing them six of the 30 senators. Ashe said he did not propose to change to a system in which no one district had more than three senators in order to stave off Republican criticism, and perhaps a court challenge. But he didn’t argue that the current system would provide Republicans with some potentially potent talking points. Scott and Sununu were both re-elected last November. But both houses of Sununu’s legislature flipped from Republican to Democratic majorities and both houses of Scott’s got even more Democratic than they were, possibly Democratic enough to override a veto. Scott vetoed a mandatory family medical leave bill last year. Sununu didn’t have to last year when his party ran the Legislature. Even if it doesn’t, voters like the idea.