Third Way

[octoberlib]

161. I don't know who called Franken and Ellison third way but

that's patently ridiculous. I'd love to have them in my state.


See, here's the thing about red states ... actually I'll use my state North Carolina as an example even though it's purple. We have 3 lawsuits that have been filed concerning voting rights and disenfranchisement (that I know of, there may be more).

The first one was filed by the Justice Department concerning voting rights

The second one concerns gerrymandering. NC has the most extreme gerrymandering in the US. So extreme that the US Supreme court declared it unconstitutional and told the NC Supreme court to get it fixed. In 2012 Democrats won the popular vote but Republicans retained control of the legislature due to gerrymandering. Democrats in this state did their job to get their candidates elected but to no avail.

Another lawsuit is getting ready to be filed against Gov. Pat McCrory by voting rights groups and the NAACP. Turns out thousands of Democratic voter registrations disappeared from the rolls in 2014 ,most of them minority. So these people were unable to vote. Republican Thom Tillis managed to get elected to the Senate in an extremely close race , even though Hagan was ahead in the polls. We might have had another Democrat in the Senate if the rolls hadn't been purged.

This is what's it's like for Democrats living in a red state or purple state controlled by Republicans. Sometimes it just isn't as simple as working hard to get our candidate elected. We do work hard .We all do.