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In reply to the discussion: The real stolen election - Democrats just won the House by 1.2 million votes (2012) [View all]Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)45. I didn't say that more people voted Dem
I said that all of the committed Dems voted in 2010. The Dem president and Congress, who were voted in by millions of indy's and swing voters in 2008, failed to deliver the change they promised in 2008. A typical example was a caller to Hartmann in the summer of 2010, during Brunch With Bernie. He said that he typically voted R but had voted for Obama in 2008 because he could not abide our government torturing prisoners, and had believed that Obama would summarily end that practice. Since the president had decide to continue the practice, he was going to go back to voting primarily (R). This is the kind of voter who came out for Obama in 2008 then stayed home in 2010, not the liberals.
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The real stolen election - Democrats just won the House by 1.2 million votes (2012) [View all]
banned from Kos
Dec 2012
OP
I would, considering the Dems won the Presidency, 2 more Senate seats, and even the House.
JaneyVee
Dec 2012
#20
You mentioned the Voting Rights Act. It appears the SCOTUS will dismantle it this year. nm
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#35
Thank you. The numbers don't lie. The very Dem youth vote in particular fell off in 2010.
SunSeeker
Jan 2013
#65
Perhaps the subjects of the sentence was unclear - 'unproductive, ideological purity' are not what
freshwest
Dec 2012
#27
Wishing Democrats had voted more in 2010 doesn't change the fact that gerrymandering is
Cleita
Dec 2012
#7
and yet the "talking heads" will go on and on about the fact we had a split election
Botany
Dec 2012
#8
Worse still, gerrymandered, secure, wing-nut district Reps have no reason to compromise
Coyotl
Dec 2012
#9
The reason is because Mitt Romney was such a bad choice, no one was left to vote for except Obama.
RC
Dec 2012
#23
Gerrymandering has been going on in California for years much to the advantage of
Playinghardball
Dec 2012
#19
This is a good example of elections having consequences. The GOP was able to gerrymander so many
totodeinhere
Dec 2012
#21
I would agree if donations and support from outside of the district were prohibited.
Sam1
Dec 2012
#40
True. And why the GOP in states affected by the Voting Rights Act keep trying to repeal it.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#34