GOP Setting Up Permanent One Party Rule Over Your Dead Body. It Is Worse Than You Think.

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41. We live in a two party system that is evenly divided in a two curve pattern

As badly as Bush and the Republicans screwed up, and as powerful a position Democrats at the federal level had in 2008, there's really no way without a new party forming, for the Republicans to not regain power.

This is especially the case given that we have a geographically divided country. It makes it so that some Senate seats are effectively out of reach and it's easier to create gerrymandered House seats.

The two curve pattern matters because it means that the middle isn't the place with the most number of likely voters which would push the parties to the middle of the entire voting population. Instead we have two groups of partisans, and in general each party nominee is the one closest to the center of the party.

There is no evidence that the actual voting is rigged. Yes there is gerrymandering, but if enough people turn out to vote, then we will win. These claims that the sky is falling and that there will be no more free elections are just silly. Karl Rove was sure he was setting up Republicans to have a decades long grip on power, the media was saying the Republican party was at risk. The system is designed in a way that favors a two party system.