In another attempt to educate her little band of DUmbasses, the crazy bald dwarf tries to explain gerrymandering, and she wants them all to realize it:
Wed May 8, 2013, 11:16 AM
nadinbrzezinski (119,601 posts)
Gerrymandering...this is one reason
The only reason, John Boehner is speaker of the House. More people voted for Democrats last cycle for Democrats for the House...I want all of you to realize this.
As to SC-1, it's a 30 year republican district...it should have been an easy pickings due to the Candidate, but from what I read Colbert Bush did not run a good campaign. And this is a heavily gerrymandered, it's that again, district. It is white, it is Republican.
In my view one step the whole country should take, won't, is what California has done...have citizens, not the legislature, draw the districts. It is still bad, see Daryl Issa's and Duncan Hunter, and Susan Davis's districts. But not as bad as it used to be. Some districts around the country are so safe, that you could run a zombie, that zombie will win. SC-1 is such a district.
And it's a special election, GOP gets it's people out, DNC, not so much.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022814582Over twenty minutes without a response - the nutcase is getting pissed:
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Wed May 8, 2013, 11:40 AM
nadinbrzezinski (119,601 posts)
1. I know, I know facts are like not good
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #1)
Wed May 8, 2013, 12:06 PM
kona808 (9 posts)
2. Wouldn't that also explain how Jesse Jackson Jr.
could be re-elected to his US House seat from a hospital room at the Mayo clinic while under investigation by the DOJ?
Response to kona808 (Reply #2)
Wed May 8, 2013, 12:09 PM
nadinbrzezinski (119,601 posts)
3. Yup
Susan Davis is a democrat.
Huh?
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Wed May 8, 2013, 01:22 PM
tabbycat31 (4,991 posts)
4. I have a friend who did GOTV in SC-01
Even if it is a special election, the district is R+19. If it were a dead even district, then it would come down to GOTV. But it's going to take the world's best GOTV operation to overcome a 19 point deficit.
Response to tabbycat31 (Reply #4)
Wed May 8, 2013, 01:29 PM
nadinbrzezinski (119,601 posts)
5. I did not realize it was that bad
+19 R...ugly
I know both parties do it, Davis's district in Cali is very safe, she is Dem.
And I agree, it needs to be where at least 50% of seats are not safe...currently we have less than 5% that are unsafe...some studies put it as low as 3%.
I think the nutcase's plan would require forced relocation of millions of 0bamaites. You can pretty much travel coast to coast without traveling through a blue county. Where would all these extra 0bamaites come from? Even the mexican amnesty plan wouldn't do the job.
I think this is one of the nutcase's funniest posts in a long, long time:
Response to tabbycat31 (Reply #6)
Wed May 8, 2013, 01:46 PM
nadinbrzezinski (119,601 posts)
8. Political reporter, among other things
So yup, read internals of local districts for breakfast when I can get my paws on them.
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #8)
Wed May 8, 2013, 02:05 PM
tabbycat31 (4,991 posts)
9. I'm a numbers geek when it comes to elections
When I interview for a district, I make a spreadsheet of past performance separated by town/county.
I'm suggesting here that in red districts, you start by building the Democratic party locally. AS soon as someone has a title ("Mayor Joe Democrat" as opposed to Joe Democrat).
To use a sports analogy, I look at local councils/school boards as a farm system for state and county level politics, which in turn are a farm system for federal politics.
And if you lose, you want to at the very least go down with a fight, and build an infrastructure that can be used in future elections.
Response to tabbycat31 (Reply #9)
Wed May 8, 2013, 02:15 PM
nadinbrzezinski (119,601 posts)
10. And they don't get that
At one point I was involved in local party politics, the feeling was that those boards don't matter, why invest time or money? (Those are cheap races) and none sees how important those are.
Now city council, that is where they start to get interested, but only in bluer districts.
As I said, if any of the folks in the fire district, two are also on another advisory board, decide to run...for starters they got some name recognition. One is a tea party fan, but also a fan of open government... They all have that name out there. People in the local area *know* who they are.
Joe Shmo dem, has no chance against them, just from the name game.
And even here on DU, people are invested in national races, but don't ask them who is the local mayor, head of the board of supervisors, or board of education. Most folks are not paying attention to the farm team. And judicial races...let's not even go there!
Another career for the nutcase resume!!
Response to tabbycat31 (Reply #11)
Wed May 8, 2013, 02:26 PM
nadinbrzezinski (119,601 posts)
12. Ah yes...don't get me started on the
Very much off the record talk on a local congressional candidate who is a woman.
Sexism in the dem party...yup, very much so. But if you even talk about it, people scream.
As a reporter I am registered independent, but I see my role as important as getting into partisan politics...we can make or break a candidate, that is the damn truth.
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Wed May 8, 2013, 01:33 PM
former9thward (6,277 posts)
7. The Voting Rights Act is more to blame than gerrmandering.
The VRA demands districts be drawn that protect the interests of minority voters. This means that districts must be drawn which will ensure minority representatives will be elected. These districts usually need to have at least 70% minority voters. So reliable Democratic voters are bunched together and this allows Republican voters to be spread out. This, not gerrymandering, is the reason D candidates received more votes but won less than half of the seats.
Nothing from the crazy bald dwarf yet, but you can be sure DUmmy formernumberthward will soon be schooled.
