Response to sabrina 1 (Original post)
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 06:09 PM
Star Member hobbit709 (33,506 posts)
10. If it is so CENTER-LEFT why do rightwing lunatics keep getting elected?
Minus the "lunatics" label-epithet this resident of the DU corner of Hobbiton points out the gaping hole in the OP's "reasoning". And Hissyspit's talking-points-grade response is silly.
Many/most states' Congressional districts were mapped out by D-dominated legislatures (including populous states like CA, NY, and IL), so if gerrymandering is relevant, it resulted in more Ds in district-based offices than would randomly drawn districts. Gerrymandering is irrelevant where statewide offices are concerned - Governors, State AGs, US Senators, US President & VP.
"Voter suppression" is similarly ridiculous, because such a conspiracy would have to be of massive magnitude. Additionally, keeping an effort such magnitude secret would be impossible. Too many people for every one of them to keep silent; too easily infiltrated; a MSM that would
LOVE to expose such an effort.