Adopt a liberal (How to win the House in 2014 and save Democracy)

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We need to win 17 seats to win back Congress and can't do so with the current districts barring a wave election of literally unprecedented proportions in a President's 6th year. So how do we get those 17 seats back. By undoing the gerrymandering one liberal at a time. To take a couple of local to me examples. David Price won his Congressional seat by 170,583 votes. Renee Elmers won her district by 45,093 votes. So what we need is about 70,000 liberals to move from district 4 to district 2 and we would then win both districts. But the problems is no one wants to move. So here is my idea. For the month prior to the election liberal households in Elmers' district would rent a room in their houses to liberal voters from Price's district who would use the leases to get new id's with their new address allowing them to vote in Elmers' district.

We could do the same thing in the Charlotte area. Mel Watt won his race by 184,274 votes while Robert Pettinger and a libertarian got 32,684 more votes than the Democrat in his district. So we need about 50,000 liberals to move from Watt's district to Pettinger's.

Finally we need to shore up McIntyre's district where he won by a scant 700 votes. Here we need a few thousand people to be hosted in Wilmington and its environs. Beach vacation anyone?

A similar program in Ohio and PA would also net us seats. Ohio should yield 3 and PA 3. Wisconsin should yield another 2. That is 10 seats right there. VA might yield 2 seats.

Now this wouldn't be easy. It would involve sacrifice, space from the hosts, longer commutes from the person being hosted. But it is the only way I see that this can be done. It is legal, yes technically, but still legal and it will work.

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1. Another idea

For that amount of effort, you'd probably get more bang for your buck trying to change the state legislatures. Often very few people vote in those elections, and a few thousand votes van make the difference a lot of the time. A concerted effort at the local level could push things enough to undo some gerrymandering and win back the house.

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2. there are none between now and 2014

also the GA districts here are similarly gerrymandered.

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3. Probably wouldn't impact 2014 much

but as long as the gerrymandering is happening, the decks are stacked against us. Republican control of the state legislatures also means lots of terrible things happening at the state level.

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4. I'm sorry, but I'm not too optimistic about winning back the House

First of all, the House districts are gerrymandered against Democrats in states such as Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan.

Also, the Democrats had TOTAL control after the election of 2008, and got nothing but watered-down stimulus and health care done. So I'm not too optimistic in a Democratic Congress. Blue Dogs or not, it showed weakness that the Democrats could not rally their party in-line like the Republicans always do.

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6. that is the beauty of my plan

we don't have to change the districts.

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5. I like it

Just devious enough, while still pretty honest. As long as the residency is properly established in a timely manner, what can Rs do but whine?

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7. yep that is the point

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8. kick