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With Democrats’ grasp on the Senate increasingly tenuous — and the House all but beyond reach — some top party donors and strategists are moving to do something in the midterm election as painful as it is coldblooded: Admit the House can’t be won and go all in to save the Senate.
And, even after pouring millions into Senate races, it's not clear the Democrats can even keep control of that. Thanks you Obama and the ACA. [We don't want to offend anyone by calling it Obamacare]
The House is going to be controlled by Republicans until after 2020. Gerrymandering has pretty much guaranteed that.
Something I thought the Republicans already knew. They should be kissing Michael Steele's butt for delivering the House to them instead of booting him from his job and replacing him with a guy who always sounds drunk.
Maybe if the Democrats when they had control of the House governed according to the interests of the voters who voted them in instead of the moneyed corporate interests they wouldn't be in this dilemma.
Maybe if the Democrats when they had control of the House governed according to the interests of the voters who voted them in instead of the moneyed corporate interests they wouldn't be in this dilemma.
With Democrats’ grasp on the Senate increasingly tenuous — and the House all but beyond reach — some top party donors and strategists are moving to do something in the midterm election as painful as it is coldblooded: Admit the House can’t be won and go all in to save the Senate.
And, even after pouring millions into Senate races, it's not clear the Democrats can even keep control of that. Thanks you Obama and the ACA. [We don't want to offend anyone by calling it Obamacare]
This article does not back up any of its claim, the only example it uses is George MIller and he won his House district 58 to 31 in 2012.
Don't believe it for a second. The Democratic candidates are out to win, and will work hard to do it.
The gerrymandering makes some of the districts very difficult, but nobody is conceding anything right now.
Though i am in favor of redistricting reform, whatever plan is adopted needs to have many safeguards than California's system, which was circumvented by the parties right out of the gate.
Now rather than degenerate into a democrat bash, kudos to them for figuring out how to legally game the system, instead I would rather use this as an education: Any other attempts at redistricting commissions need to have some form of "testimony under oath" aspect with perjury penalties. That would repair the lacking confidence in Ca's system. So when little granny Perkins from Colton testifies that she really wants her community in district x, and we find out later that in reality that she is a professional gerrymandering expert from Boise ID hired by the SEIU, which in several instnces really happened, she would be looking at some jail time.
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