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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 08:32 AM
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One thing we have to take into count is that many of the democratic
losses in the house were in districts that were basically drawn republican.

These were seats held by republicans since the 90's and started to be pealed off in 2006 and were swept out in the 2008 election.

That is all...
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:05 AM
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1. Kick for the truth...
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:06 AM
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Sugar coating, best tasted with a blindfold.....
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:06 AM
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2. So the republicans are supposed to be in control?
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 12:17 PM
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5. The districts were drawn to favor republicans....
That is why we could be in the wilderness for ten more years. So many of the statehouses are now in GOP hands that they will decide how the districts are drawn.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:28 AM
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3. Which is yet another reason Dems need to win.
The R's will get to do more damage, now.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:29 AM
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4. It's the downside of the 50-state strategy
On the one hand, it gets you more seats in good years. On the other hand, those seats are held by conservative Democrats who end up gumming up the works so much that the public gets frustrated with our party.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 12:36 PM
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6. Exactly.
The voters who only show up for national elections aren't doing themselves any favors.

Democratic Rep. Chet Edwards (TX) was ousted yesterday after serving in the House for 20 years...a direct result of Tom Delay and Rick Perry's redistricting scheme in 2003.

(DeLay is now on trial for laundering corporate money through the National Republican Campaign Committee. He used this money to help get enough Republican State Congressmen elected so that they could carry out the plan to carve Democrats out by redistricting.)

The enemy thinks long term, and so should we.
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