'Gerrymandering On Steroids': How Republicans Stacked The Nation's Statehouses
Republicans today have a majority in nearly two-thirds of the country's state legislative chambers, thanks to a party plan dubbed REDMAP.
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Republicans today have a majority in nearly two-thirds of the country's state legislative chambers, thanks to a party plan dubbed REDMAP.
Battle of republican ideas, democratic ideas, liberal ideas, progressive and conservative ideas. if that is the case, if that's the contest that we have, i think democrats will do just fine. but what i do not want to have happen is a successful effort and then have democrats in 2021 do what republicans did in 2011. that is not what this project is all about. >> you feel like republicans kind of ran the table on this during the obama administration doing the red map project in 2010 and tilted the playing field. what you want is to tilt it back and fix the system? >> tilt it back and just to fai...
They have been able to get in a very short period of time with no paid signature gathers that is on the ballot next year. if it's on the ballot it's going to pass. and again, i don't know what you've been doing since the election but in virginia a whole bunch of people turned their own lives upside down to do everything they could to try to bring about a democratic land slide in that exactic state in 2017. in virginia that worked as far as it goes. but the districts are so partisan there even that democratic land slide two weeks ago might not be enough to give the democrats control. it all goe...
Democrats will do just fine. but what i do not want to have happen is for this to be a successful effort and then have democrats in 2021 do what republicans did in 2011. that is not what this project is all about. >> so you feel like republicans kind of ran the table on this during the obama administration when they did their red map project in 2010, that set them up in a way that tilted the playing field. >> yeah. >> what you want is to tilt it back and fix the system? >> yeah. tilt it back but get it to just fair. not tilt it back to sfafr democrats, just get it to a place where the lines ar...
Good government. what i want to have is a sense that the lines be drawn in a fair way and make it a battle between republican ideas,have, democrats will do just fine. but what i do not want to have happen is for this to be a successful effort and then democrats in 2021 do what republicans did in 2011. that is not what this project is all about. >> you feel like republicans kind of ran the table on this during the obama administration when they did their red map project in 2010 and set them up in a way -- >> right. >> tilted the playing field and then want to tilt it back and get it back. >> no...