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Opponents ever caught to what you were doing until you had done it and they woke up the next morning that you skrud them for not one day, one year or a decade least. when it comes to political genius, i here by maintain this is nothing comparable in the last five years in american electoral politics at least, probably considerably longer than that is anything like this. if democrats would wave a magic wand and undo the political work of one person in the past five years, it would be the red map guy, right? it would be our next guest. if i were a republican i'd be lobbying to put this guy's fac...

Could lose. but then again he had run run in a race where red map for its own reasons was going to spend $500,000 on that race in the last two weeks before the election. so yeah, russ decker lost and that seat became a republican seat. i don't know if you know this but i'm a liberal. and i think the republican takeover in the states has been terrible. basically across the board in terms of policy consequences because i dobt don't tend to like republican policies. i'm also a civics dork who thinks that districting shouldn't be drawn for political reasons for safe seats for democrats or republic...

Much bigger victory in the states that would basically guarantee they would control congress for a decade. that was a genius moment of recognizing the political leverage there. then there was transforming that idea in to an actual plan to do it. so there's this little group that very few people have heard of, the republican state leadership committee and they go to work with this red map idea and they raise money nationally from deep pocketed but fairly typical republican donors. they raise a little over $30 million for the quiet project. instead of applying the money to congressional races an...

Terms of policy consequences because i don't tend to like republican policies. i'm also a civics dork that things districts should not be drawn for partisan reasons to make safe seats for democrats or republicans. so on the merits, this whole story -- guhh. but for the strategic thought and execution to have the biggest and longstanding impact without a huge outlay of resources, and without your opponents figuring out what you were doing until you had done it and they wake up and realize that you screwed them for a decade, when it comes to political genius, i hearby maintain there is nothing c...

Failing. then in 2010, they even beat that. the 1994 midterm was a pick up of 54 seats. in 2010, the first term of the obama presidency, the republicans got 63 seats in the house. that is how john boehner became speaker. they had a huge year. that was nowhere near their biggest victory that year. the republican state leadership committee started a project they called the redistricting majority project, or red map for short. and for this red map project they started raising a lot of money. it was not formally affiliated with the republican national party. they were not strangers, but they were ...