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I think Gregg Gray has laid out the predominant reason for this - the 4 extra liberal senators. The current number of representatives won’t change in total, it will remain at 435, but just who is it that will lose those 4 representatives that PR would gain, and the 1 that DC would gain? it won’t be the smallest states, as they have just 1 to begin with. Odds are pretty good CA would lose 1, TX 1, FL 1, and the other 2 perhaps from NY and PA, Something along those lines. Fairly even split, but if FL and TX each lost 1 conservative Rep, and PR and DC gained a liberal one, then that further shifts the balance in the House.Financially PR has a lot more poor folks than any US state. You would see entitlement program costs increase dramatically when the PR residents start getting their EBT cars and free phones, and so on. To pay for them, taxes would have to go up. To administer them, you’d have to enlarge government even more. Odds are good that special programs to help the PR citizens would be enacted. More bureaucracy and more tax monies go there. The entire legal structure in PR would have to adjust to meet Federal regulations. perhaps not too much in terms of interpersonal crimes, but perhaps a lot more regarding business rules and such.I’d like to think that if the Dems got their way on this, Texas would invoke its right to divide into 5 states, generating TEN senators from the current two. Again the representative issues would have to play out. The Dems get 4 new senators, Texas gets 8 new ones. Be careful what you ask for.But we’d have 56 states, then. Pretty close to the 57 states BO said he visited when he was campaigning.

So obviously I’m not planning to run down all 435 districts or even the 100 or so competitive races in the House, but here’s the final forecast map (with a zoomable, clickable version here):In broad strokes there are maybe five categories of districts that will anchor any new Democratic majority:Northeastern suburbs in New Jersey and Pennsylvania look like the most fertile ground for Democratic pickups. They look more or less assured of at least four pickups in the Philly metro area alone (PA-05, PA-06, PA-07, NJ-02), and could pick up as many as 10 districts in total in these two states.Democrats are also doing very well in Midwestern suburbs. They look ready to pick up two districts in the Twin Cities area (MN-02, MN-03), one in KC-Kansas (KS-03) and one in the Detroit suburbs (MI-11), and they also stand a good chance of winning up to five more districts in the suburbs of Chicago, Columbus, Milwaukee, and Lansing.Democrats are also looking pretty good in Sunbelt suburbs, with at least two virtually assured pickups (AZ-02, CA-49). Seven more districts in Southern California (CA-25, CA-39, CA-45, CA-48), Texas (TX-07, TX-32), and Georgia (GA-06) are all virtual toss-ups.Somewhat surprisingly, Democrats aren’t doing quite as hot in majority-Latino districts that many expected to turn out most strongly against the president. They look ready to pick up one (FL-27) and are strongly favored in another (CA-10), but in some of the other ones they’re running either dead even (FL-26, NM-02) or even behind where they’d hoped to be (TX-23).Democrats are also staging surprising comebacks in largely rural, white districts that swung heavily for Trump in 2016. They look ready to make at least one pickup (IA-01), and several others are pretty much toss-ups (IA-03, ME-02, NY-19, NY-22).There are also enough somewhat Republican-leaning districts around the country that a handful of upsets wouldn’t be surprising at all (we just don’t know which districts those will be).

Somewhere in 2015 ( if I am not mistaken)on Lufthansa flight 435 flying from Chicago to Munich, the pilot asked the ATC for the clearance to descend to FL 120 to show it’s passengers the solar eclipse that was gonna occur on it’s flight path. The ATC granted the pilots the permission and all the passengers aboard the Airbus aircraft were able to witness this mammoth event at its very peak.Planning ahead, LH outfitted the aircraft with a special informational card along with safety ‘glasses’ so that passengers could take advantage of their proximity to this rare event. They were also given the option of being woken up to take in the event, which happened about 6 hours into the flight.Hence if you are on a flight close to any famous place keep your finger crossed that you may be able to get a aerial tour of the monument/ event!