ProPublica - "How Dark Money Helped Republicans Hold the House and Hurt Voters"

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2. Rachel Maddow did a BRILLIANT job laying it out

as she is prone to do.

She showed a core of about 5 states, Pa, Michigan, Virginia, Ohio, and I think Wisconsin, where they were able to pull this off.

The President and Bob Casey won Pa by over 5 percent, we have nearly 1,000,000 more registered democrats than republicans, democratic house candidates have FAR more votes than republican candidates, and out of 18 congressional districts we ended up with 13 repubicans and 5 democrats.

The disparity was nearly the same and even worse in the other states.

That is the House, right there.

And, because of 2010, and also because we had long had some of the worst gerrymanded districts in the country in place already, the Rs had a mortal lock in the state senate, a majority in the House and the governor.

In Pa, FIVE people set up the districts - the leaders from both parties in both chambers and the governor, in essence.

Oh, and for the record, it is the republicans being partisan jackasses, and it is the DEMOCRATS worrying about their own skin. YES, democrats put a snit when it goes to vote, but there are PLENTY of them who know that the districts, both congressional and state level, protect THEM.