New report details just how rigged the midterms are in favor of Republicans

A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice suggests that congressional races are so heavily rigged in favor of Republicans that the United States can barely be described as a democratic republic. The upshot of their analysis is that, to win a bare majority of the seats in the U.S. House, Democrats “would likely have to win the national popular vote by nearly 11 points.”

To put that number in perspective, neither party achieved an 11-point popular vote win in the last several decades. The last time this happened, according to the Brennan Center, was 1982, when a deep recession led the opposition Democrats to a 269 seat majority against President Reagan’s Republicans.

https://thinkprogress.org/democracy-may-be-doomed-65b24b3554d0/

This is wrong and we need to do everything in our power to end this injustice against the American people.

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New report details just how rigged the midterms are in favor of Republicans (Original post)	Matthew28	Mar 2018	OP
Nate Cohn and Dave Wasserman trashed this report in Twitter earlier.	bearsfootball516	Mar 2018	#1
link?	Hermit-The-Prog	Mar 2018	#5
While we are at it, let's end the electoral college.	Sophia4	Mar 2018	#2
Its a crap study	Loki Liesmith	Mar 2018	#3
Not new information, but we really need new outrage.	Hortensis	Mar 2018	#4
Yes	GWC58	Mar 2018	#8
Gerrymandering affects the House, so of course midterms are in favor of the repubs. -nt	CrispyQ	Mar 2018	#6
11 Points?	Turbineguy	Mar 2018	#7
Dems have to be twice as good to be considered half as good	Skittles	Mar 2018	#9
secession, and i'm not kidding; that or just ignore objectionable federal laws. nt	TheFrenchRazor	Mar 2018	#10

Response to Matthew28 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2018, 08:17 PM

bearsfootball516 (6,345 posts)

1. Nate Cohn and Dave Wasserman trashed this report in Twitter earlier.

Then went in detail to explain how a 7-8 point win should be more than enough to swing the House.

Link to tweet

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Response to bearsfootball516 (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 26, 2018, 08:23 PM

Hermit-The-Prog (27,203 posts)

5. link?

Do they present their arguments anywhere besides twitter?

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Response to Matthew28 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2018, 08:18 PM

Sophia4 (3,515 posts)

2. While we are at it, let's end the electoral college.

It disenfranchises millions in California alone, but also across the country.

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Response to Matthew28 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2018, 08:21 PM

Loki Liesmith (4,598 posts)

3. Its a crap study

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Response to Matthew28 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2018, 08:22 PM

Hortensis (55,698 posts)

4. Not new information, but we really need new outrage.

We need to feel the conviction that this is dreadfully wrong and we need to fix it the way those Stoneman Douglas high school students did.

And the next time someone posts that right-wing lie they've saturated the nation with that Democrats didn't win because we didn't speak about what people care about, respond with truth and conviction!

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Response to Hortensis (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 26, 2018, 08:44 PM

GWC58 (2,678 posts)