how the Rs rigged congress and poisoned politics
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Hofeller, the master GOP mapmaker and white-haired veteran of the most important decennial wars in politics, delivered a presentation called “Redistricting 2010: Preparing for Success.” What he laid out that Monday morning, apparently for the first time before Republican state legislators, explains why the Republican Party now dominates all levels of American politics despite a polarized and closely divided electorate that generally tends to favor Democrats. It was the GOP strategy to reinvent the gerrymander.
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If there is to be a blue wave in 2018, it will need to overcome a red seawall that was exactingly designed beginning a decade ago and has proven impermeable in state after state ever since. Even in Virginia last November, Democrats won nearly a quarter of a million more votes than Republicans — and it still wasn’t enough to overcome district lines rigged to guarantee the GOP a built-in advantage. In Alabama, where Doug Jones recently became the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in decades, disgraced GOP candidate Roy Moore still carried six of the state’s seven gerrymandered congressional districts.
Those kinds of results — Democrats winning more votes, Republicans holding more seats — have become almost commonplace this decade. It’s not a coincidence.
The visionaries at the Republican State Leadership Committee, who designed the aptly-named strategy dubbed REDMAP, short for Redistricting Majority Project, managed to look far beyond the short-term horizon. They designed an audacious and revolutionary plan to wield the gerrymander as a tool to lock in conservative governance of state legislatures and Congress.
Those kinds of results — Democrats winning more votes, Republicans holding more seats — have become almost commonplace this decade. It’s not a coincidence.
The visionaries at the Republican State Leadership Committee, who designed the aptly-named strategy dubbed REDMAP, short for Redistricting Majority Project, managed to look far beyond the short-term horizon. They designed an audacious and revolutionary plan to wield the gerrymander as a tool to lock in conservative governance of state legislatures and Congress.
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my opinion is you are dumber than fucking shit to make that statement
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Gerrymandering has to go. I'm amazed when I see the %'s in some of these districts - how Democrats have to win 70% of the vote just to break even in certain areas.
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What are you talking about desh?
I've been against gerrymandering for as long as it has existed. Don't be a narcissist.
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I have been talking about republicans cheating in elections for over a decade.
I took shit from even dems for it here
don't you remember
want me to go get some of the threads about it I started.
YOU Here on all sides called me insane for it
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why did you refuse to discuss it with me then?
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Gerrymandering isn't "cheating" - nothing they did was outside of the rules. We just need to change the rules. Dems gerrymander also.
What you have talked about is widespread fraud and actual cheating. You're just like Trump in that regard.
Yes, you're right. That's our good friend Toxic. First Rev Hellwhore had a masters in psychology. Now she's suddenly got her own business comprising both IT (my husband's career) and security (Mason's). It's true! So true!
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they cheated America voters out of their right to have their votes count as much as everyone elses vote
IT IS A CRIME
1/2 a vote is not a vote huh
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It proved more effective than any Republican dared dream. Republicans held the U.S. House in 2012, despite earning 1.4 million fewer votes than Democratic congressional candidates, and won large GOP majorities in the Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina state legislatures even when more voters backed Democrats
https://www.salon.com/2018/02/06/how-the-republicans-rigged-congress-and-poisoned-our-politics/
that is not what the founders planed huh
https://www.salon.com/2018/02/06/how-the-republicans-rigged-congress-and-poisoned-our-politics/
that is not what the founders planed huh
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Now new court documents, previously unrevealed emails and once-secret internal documents — most revealed here for the first time — uncover how early the Republican planning began, how comprehensive the redistricting strategy was and how determined conservative operatives were to dye America red from the ground up. It’s the story of how strategists wooed deep-pocketed donors to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars (often in untraceable dark money) and convinced them that winning state legislative seats offered the best opportunity for enduring GOP control at a bargain-basement price.
It’s the behind-the-scenes narrative of how Republicans set their sights on 107 state legislative seats in 16 states, with the goal of pushing dozens of U.S. House seats into their column for a decade or longer. It captures their glee as 2010 turned into a big red wave year, and GOP strategists defended all their state chambers, expanded their push deep into Democratic country and caught the other side flat-footed in a deeply consequential year.
It’s the behind-the-scenes narrative of how Republicans set their sights on 107 state legislative seats in 16 states, with the goal of pushing dozens of U.S. House seats into their column for a decade or longer. It captures their glee as 2010 turned into a big red wave year, and GOP strategists defended all their state chambers, expanded their push deep into Democratic country and caught the other side flat-footed in a deeply consequential year.