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Pockets and typical republican donors. they got $30 million for the quiet project. but instead of applying that money to the senate races and congressional rations and governor's races around the country, that get all of the attention, instead of those, what they did at red map was political genius. as a pure political move, it was a visionary thing they put that big money from big ticket republican donors that only had big national ambitions, they took that money and they spent it in the most unimaginably obscure races all over the country in very specific strategic ways. the operational geni...

President not bad for $1.5 million total for the state. jeb bush raises that much money before lunchtime in one day. that was enough to get the whole state. one of the biggest coups was wisconsin where they thought it was worth the investment to try to topple the senate majority leader. he was a fixture in wisconsin. even in a red year, it did not seem like a guy like russ decker could lose. but he had never run in a race where red map would come in and spend $500,000 on that race in the last two weeks before the election. so russ decker lost and that seat became a republican seat. i don't kno...

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 at arms length. so red map, separate from everything else the party was doing, publicly trying to do well. it was the job of red map to specifically try to win in the states. and to get more specific than that, their plan what they were designed to do was to flip as many...

They flipped two of the four. congratulations. you just won control of the new york state senate for $1.5 million. they spent $1 million on michigan house races. that was enough to pick up 20 seats. 1.5 to the alabama republican party, when properly targeted was enough to flip enough seats the house and senate flipped from republican to democratic control for the first zim time since the reconstruction area after the civil war. on an average fund-raising day right now jeb bush literally raises that much money before lunchtime in one day. that was enough to get the whole state. one of the bigge...

The house right now. they are excited to admit even though republicans hold the house even though americans voted for more democrats in the house. this is from a republican strategy document. suggesting that 2012 could have had a part in 2008 to democrats. republicans did not lose control of the house despite the way that america voted. republican ares kept a 33 seat majority in the house. it was red map and the republican party breaks down how it worked to do that state by state. pennsylvanians cast 83,000 more votes for candidates than their republican opponents but elects a 13-5 majority to...