Mr.Phips
Junior Chimp
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« on: October 17, 2012, 11:03:08 AM » |
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This is what continues to drive me crazy. There are three obvious examples where the DNC could have made the difference and helped give Democrats a likely 8-10 more House seats.
One is New York. Had Democrats kept full control in New York, they could have drawn Republicans down to just two House seats, one on Long Island(Peter King) and one upstate(a district that swallows up the most Republican parts of Western New York and voted around 55% McCain). This was all lost because a Democrat lost a 77% Obama district in the state Senate in Buffalo and a strongly Dem seat on Long Island by a combined 1,000 votes. Had the DNC been monitoring this situation, both of these seats would have been saved.
Another is Michigan. Had Democrats kept the Michigan state House, they would have been able to block a GOP gerrymander and set up a fair fight district between Gary Peters and Thad McCottter(who would have retired anyway). Democrats had a 67-43 advantage in the state House and should have been able to hold their losses to single digits there. However, they allowed Republicans to pick up a bunch of Dem leaning seats and get a majority there without a fight.
The final place where the DNC could have helped was Ohio where Ted Strickland lost by just a hair. A bigger Dem turnout and a higher percentage in Cuyahoga would have saved him and blocked a GOP gerrymander there. It would have kept OH-01 increasingly nearly unwinnable for Chabot(who only won in 2010 because the GOP wave). It would have also kept OH-12 and OH-15 Dem trending and increasingly Democratic.
Since Obama, the DNC has turned into the ONC(The Obama National Committee) and the Democrats have paid dearly for it. Of course, all of the same idiots on Daily Kos who said redistricting doesnt matter cause "them did it in 2001 and that didnt stop a Dem majority in 2006" are now complaining that Democrats cant win a majority because of redisticting.
Now the Republicans have a locked in House majority that can never be thrown out no matter what.
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