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(89,309 posts)Look into the DLCC's Advantage 2020 - where they're focusing, NOW, on that very thing in the three election cycles ahead, 2016, 2018, and 2020. They're FINALLY catching on about what's happening at the state level and why Dems won't be able to get much of ANYTHING done unless we take back the statehouses AND the state legislatures. Because THAT is where the poisons are spreading. THAT is where the bad guys are fucking with the right to vote, a woman's right to choose, ANYBODY'S right to marry, anyone's right to have affordable health care, immigrants rights, workers' rights to organize, unions' rights even just to exist.
It all stems from who controls the state on the "0-years" - EVERY TEN YEARS ON THE ZERO YEAR. That's when the census is taken, population shifts are noted and Congressional reapportionment happens accordingly, and whoever's in power gets to make all the decisions about how Congressional districts are drawn to respond to those new population realities as determined by that new census. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE that DEMS control the majority of statehouses in the "0-years."
http://dlcc.org/news/2020-war-room-inside-secret-plan-beat-gop-gerrymandering-0
Our team is FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY starting to wake up.
