GOP keeps House edge in Democratic-leaning states

Tom Joad · #1 07-12-2014, 10:10 PM

The title of this should be "How the lyin cheatin bastards game the system"

http://news.yahoo.com/gop-keeps-hous...-election.html

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Republicans and Democrats have engaged in gerrymandering for decades. Republicans refined the practice in 2011, a year after they won control of numerous state governments preparing to redraw congressional maps based on the 2010 census. It's one reason Republicans hold a solid House majority even though Americans cast 1.4 million more votes for Democratic House candidates than for GOP House candidates in 2012.

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VanishingPoi · #2 07-13-2014, 04:30 PM

Hooray for the Mississippi blacks. Maybe they can set a good example of the black persuasion in states like Georgia, Tennessee, and others.

Tom Joad · #3 07-13-2014, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by VanishingPoi

Hooray for the Mississippi blacks. Maybe they can set a good example of the black persuasion in states like Georgia, Tennessee, and others.

I'm not so sure they did the right thing.

I think they should have let the baggers nominate McDaniel. He would have been a gift to the left IMO.

VanishingPoi · #4 07-13-2014, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I'm not so sure they did the right thing.

I think they should have let the baggers nominate McDaniel. He would have been a gift to the left IMO.

I am not sure I understand your meaning?

finnbow · #5 07-13-2014, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by VanishingPoi

I am not sure I understand your meaning?

It would be the only chance, albeit slim, for the Dems to take the Mississippi Senate seat.

Tom Joad · #6 07-13-2014, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by VanishingPoi

I am not sure I understand your meaning?

There won't be a helluva lot of difference in the way they vote in the senate.

They are both evil as far as I am concerned, but McDaniel isn't disciplined enough to keep from broadcasting to the world how fucked up today's right wingers are.

Tom Joad · #7 07-13-2014, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by finnbow

It would be the only chance, albeit slim, for the Dems to take the Mississippi Senate seat.

Actually that's not what I meant. I think Mississippi would be a lost cause either way for the Dems. However McDaniel is such a flake that he would hurt the GOP image. (As if it could be hurt any more than Palin, Cruz, Rand Paul, etc have already hurt it).

finnbow · #8 07-13-2014, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Actually that's not what I meant. I think Mississippi would be a lost cause either way for the Dems. However McDaniel is such a flake that he would hurt the GOP image. (As if it could be hurt any more than Palin, Cruz, Rand Paul, etc have already hurt it).

The only way they even got a Democrat to run for the Senate (Travis Childers, a Congressman) was because they thought McDaniel was going to win the GOP nod. They thought he was flaky enough to possibly be beaten in the general election. As it is, Cochran will win for sure.