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2008, republican political operatives started a project they called the redistricting majority project, red map for short. the idea behind red map was to flip as many state legislators from blue to red. and the timing was important because every ten years when they do the census, state legislators get to redraw election districts. in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm election, red map starting raising money to flip districts, to flip legislative seats, to approach that whole problem systematically. they raised a little over $30 million and that's a lot of money. it's not a ton of money for a pol...

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 genius of the plan was they identified the states that gave their legislatures the most control over the redistricting process. they found the place they would get the most bang for their buck if they were going to be successful. in those specific states they identified the races they could win if they tried. state rep and state senator seats that could be flipped from democratic to republican...

Well, it's a busy week at the u.s. supreme court today. today the court heard oral arguments about redistricting and whether it's constitutional for a state in this case arizona to take its legislature out of the redistricting process and give it to an independent commission. i'd do that. on wednesday, it's the big one, oral arguments in the case of king vs. burwell. the question there is whether the irs can expand tax credit subsidies, subsidies to cover insurance purchased through federal exchanges? and if the court rules against the law, millions of americans will likely lose their health i...

Well it's a busy week at the u.s. supreme court today. today the court heard oral arguments about redistricting and whether it's constitutional for a state in this case arizona to take its legislature out of the redistricting process and give it to an independent commission. i'd do that. on wednesday, it's the big one, ora lrgs arguments in the case of king versus borrell. the question there is whether the irs can expand tax credit subsidies, subsidies to cover insurance purchased through federal exchanges? and if the court rules against the law millions of americans will likely lose their hea...

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...