GOP poised to gerrymander its hold on power -- Democrats fall short in nearly every key state

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39. "fended off Democrats in Pennsylvania'

2020 is NOT 2010.

How about this headline for PA after the 2018 election - "Republicans failed to gain control of the PA governorship and State Supreme Court" (both of which will have a say when it comes to re-districting).

Media propagandists fail to emphasize this including the OP article's author who dismisses it -

"People are focused on Democrats not making gains in 2020, but we measure this by where we were a decade ago," Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for the group, told the Post. "We've reduced the total number of seats drawn entirely by Republican legislatures and governors from 213 in 2011 to 175 in 2021, and that's before the census."

Grassroots groups echoed that sentiment, arguing that Democrats "are going into the next redistricting cycle in a better position, at least in some states."

"Over the last few years, we have been able to defeat Republican trifectas and supermajorities, along with passing fair districting reform measures," Lyzz Schwegler, the co-founder of Sister District, a volunteer group that aims to end gerrymandering, told Salon. "For instance, in 2011 the GOP had trifecta control of Michigan and Pennsylvania. Going into this cycle, Democrats control at least one branch of government in both of those states. Wins in 2018 broke GOP supermajorities in both chambers in North Carolina, the Pennsylvania Senate and the Michigan Senate. And wins this year kept the GOP from gaining supermajorities in either of Wisconsin's chambers."

https://www.salon.com/2020/11/25/gop-poised-to-gerrymander-its-hold-on-power--democrats-fall-short-in-nearly-every-key-state/

What these young writers fail to realize is that the 2010 general election happened AFTER "Citizen's United", which essentially invalidated "McCain-Feingold" (Bipartisan Campaign Finance Act of 2002) and resulted in the extreme monetization of politics leading to an election during a Census year that created what Democrats have attempted to claw back the past decade. Democratic districts were purposely diluted or concentrated to maximize GOP control and that layout continued through to THIS YEAR because the next Census and re-drawing of the lines won't happen until AFTER this year.

In essence you have a race where one contender is forced to run it on a muddy, pock-marked road while the other contender runs it on a smooth paved highway and then you insult the one running it through the mud and demand to know why they haven't "won".

The issue of the First Amendment and its application has been debated endlessly - including the ACLU's opposition to McCain-Feingold. However little did they know that "Citizen's United" would equate that a "corporation" (or other entity) was a "person" with similar rights, and that has cascaded into an acceleration of the shoving of this country down the rabbit hole of corporatocracy.