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Matthew28
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March 27, 2018
https://thinkprogress.org/democracy-may-be-doomed-65b24b3554d0/
This is wrong and we need to do everything in our power to end this injustice against the American people.
New report details just how rigged the midterms are in favor of Republicans
A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice suggests that congressional races are so heavily rigged in favor of Republicans that the United States can barely be described as a democratic republic. The upshot of their analysis is that, to win a bare majority of the seats in the U.S. House, Democrats would likely have to win the national popular vote by nearly 11 points.
To put that number in perspective, neither party achieved an 11-point popular vote win in the last several decades. The last time this happened, according to the Brennan Center, was 1982, when a deep recession led the opposition Democrats to a 269 seat majority against President Reagans Republicans.
https://thinkprogress.org/democracy-may-be-doomed-65b24b3554d0/
This is wrong and we need to do everything in our power to end this injustice against the American people.
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