Wisconsin
Related: About this forumThe only reason the Republicans survived the election was due to their gerrymandering.
With the corporate media controlling the TV news, the radio waves and the news papers, we are exposed to their propaganda all day every day. And as if that wasn't enough, we have the ersatz "independent news services" like McCarthy Institute for Wayward Stalkers, Media Trackkkers and Wisconsin Distorter filling up the Intertubes with their raw sewage.
They are doing this in order to control the message and drown out any voices of dissent, as was outlined in the Powell Memo and is being actively pursued by ALEC and other extensions of American Fascism.
And they are hardly in the majority.
Ever since he introduced his proposed budget, Scott Walker has been using it as a campaign gimmick to get people to donate money and sign up for his mailing lists. Even though he's been doing this for weeks now, he's not had a resounding success:
http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/
dembotoz
(16,826 posts)dying breath
which can not come soon enough
hue
(4,949 posts)And they cheat in as many ways as is possible. Gerrymandering and mind/message/press control are 2 of the most successful ways.
HelenWheels
(2,284 posts)We will have an almost impossible task in getting rid of Duffy. The 7thCD is so gerrymandered it favors the Repukes 100%. In Kreitlow we had a wonderful candidate but a great many of his constituents were cut off by the gerrymandering.