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Rep. Brad Miller Won’t Run for Congress Again
This is really bad news. The redistricting map in North Carolina was particularly brutal to Democrats. Though they have a Democratic governor, Bev Perdue, she plays no formal role in the process, and...
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Rumors of a Settlement in Texas Redistricting Fight
The Texas redistricting mess, which with a Supreme Court ruling looked to be moving in the direction of Republicans, could bounce back. The SCOTUS only ruled on which interim maps to use while a...
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Kucinich, Squeezed Out By Redistricting, Loses Primary to Kaptur in Ohio
Dennis Kucinich, the eight-term Congressman from Cleveland, lost his bid for re-election last night in a primary to fellow Rep. Marcy Kaptur. Ohio lost two seats after the 2010 reapportionment, and...
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Texas Redistricting Map Thrown Out by Federal Court for Minority Discrimination
A federal court has thrown out Texas’ redistricting plan, charging that it was discriminatory to minority voters. DC Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith ruled that the court would not pre-clear Texas’ map...
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Ohio Provisional Ballots Case a Win for Voting Rights Activists, but...
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered one of the last remaining blows to voter suppression efforts across the country. And this one cements the near-clean sweep for voting rights advocates...
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The Lasting Impact of 2010 Election: Redistricting Cementing Republican House...
Whether you think that Democrats lost the House and a majority of state legislatures in 2010 because of a lack of improvement in the economy, the natural cycle of out-party gains in a midterm election,...
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The House in 2012: Dark Money Still Works at the District Level
DCCC Chair Steve Israel did little to nationalize House races So all three leaders in Washington will return to their positions, assuming John Boehner gets re-elected speaker. If you liked the...
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Wisconsin Loses State Senate Majority in a Mixed Night for Democrats in State...
Here’s a sad postscript that shows once again the power of dark money in off-the-radar races. The silver lining amidst the clouds of the recall election in Wisconsin was that Democrats at least “took...
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Gerrymander, SuperPAC Cash Saved GOP’s Bacon in the House, Where They Got...
Just a brief postscript to the House elections, which as I said were really decided in Republican state legislatures in 2011 during the redistricting process. It turns out that, on a vote-by-vote...
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Republicans Devise Electoral Vote-Rigging Scheme
The asymmetry in the ways Democrats and Republicans use power can be seen in their responses to Electoral College disadvantages. When Democrats are faced with an Electoral College gap such that their...
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