Subj : Starting things off.
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Oct 01 2016 12:12 pm

> The Republican Party is self-destructing.  It has become the party
> of old ideas.  A party that clings to an ideology that has long been
> discredited and discarded, having a majority in the house only due
> to gerrymandering and a very slim majority in the senate that it has
> no hopes of retaining.

Ironically, in my state, the gerrymandering that flipped it from electing
mostly Democrats to mostly Republicans was done by Democrats hoping to get
rid of the 1 or 2 Republican Reps that kept getting elected.  The first
election year after they did that, every district but maybe one went
Republican, including at least one that had not done so in decades.  Although
they got one of those districts back, the one or two districts back before
that that were Republican have remainded so for the past 20 year since, as
have the others they lost.

Local Democrats get really, really angry when you use the word gerrymander
around them.  Really, really angry.

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