Sometimes I get tired of the Liberal and Progressive talking heads. While it is true that because of our failure from the President down to all of us, political activists, we have ceded much of the redistricting process to the Republicans. It is fool hearted to believe we are somehow locked out of regaining the house in 2012.
Our policies are sound and they benefit the middleclass. Republican policies are a material detriment to the middleclass and support mostly major corporations. While Republicans have the Fox News network and the Right Wing radio echo chamber to create an alternate state of reality, we have emails, blogs, word of mouth, letters to the editor, calling into talk radio, footwork, telephone calls, rallies, and more to counteract the imbalance. Our message and hard work along with the middleclass’ bank statements should be more than enough to win back the House, keep the Senate, and keep the Presidency in 2012.
Two years ago when Republicans lost many of us believed our own rhetoric that Conservatism was down for the count. While that is true for pure Conservatism, the alternate state of reality created by the GOP with the assistance of the Right Wing echo chamber mitigated that this cycle. We must lick our wounds, remain in the game, engage effective immediately, get a spine, and stop sulking. There is a lot of work to be done.
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Think Tuesday was bad? Wait ’til Republicans get to redraw the electoral map.
— By Nick Baumann
The Republican wave couldn’t have come at a worse time for Dems. America’s once-a-decade census has wrapped up, and many states are due to change the boundaries of their congressional districts. Population-based adjustments mean that slower-growing states (like Ohio) will lose seats, while faster-growing states (like Florida) will gain them. [More on that here: Secrets of the Census.]
But even those states that don’t gain or lose seats will have a chance to redraw their congressional districts. By carefully drawing boundaries to include or exclude Dem or GOP-leaning communities, redistrictors can all but determine the outcome of House elections in advance. And most of those redistrictors are going to be Republican.
Here’s why. GOP victories in Tuesday’s midterms weren’t limited to House and Senate races. Across the country, voters elected new Republican governors and more than 650 new state legislators. In most states, winning the "trifecta"—the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature—gives a party full control over district-drawing. Republicans have achieved that holy grail of redistricting in 14 states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. (They’ll also control the process in New Hampshire and North Carolina, where they control both chambers and the governor plays no role in redistricting.) [More on the trifecta here: The Real Prize in Tuesday’s Elections.] The GOP hasn’t controlled this many state legislatures since 1928.
