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(90,816 posts)Where DEBBIE and company dropped the ball in 2010. The "zero years" are the ALL IMPORTANT ONES - to make DAMN SURE that there are Democrats in as many governor's and secretaries of state jobs as possible. When you have the bad guys in there, you have THEM controlling the "voting mechanisms" as chris christie would say. Look what happened in Florida in 2000. republi-CON governor and republi-CON secretary of state. And look what happened! The "zero years" are when the national census is taken. That then leads directly to reapportionment - when they redraw Congressional districts according to the changes and adjustments in population. Which is where the gerrymandering happens. The gerrymandering - that allows too many Congressional districts to be drawn with enough twists and turns and dangling participles to look like a sample of the Ebola virus - and become "safe" districts for the GOP. That is voter nullification if ever I saw it. Making sure to defy and undo the will of the majority. A million more Democratic votes were cast. Wouldn't one be tempted to think that would be accurately reflected in the makeup of Congress? Well, it ISN'T. Gerrymandering is the problem. And whatever is implemented in any of those "zero years" applies to all election cycles for the rest of that DECADE.
And when our dear darling DEBBIE replaced Howard Dean as DNC Chair, she went back to the Beltway "wisdom" and summarily discarded Dr. Dean's "50-State Strategy" - and look what it got us? The results of 2010, that's what! The Year of the Teabagger, that's what.
GREAT job, DEBBIE. Yeah, YOU sure knew "better," didn't you?!