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In reply to the discussion: Netanyahu to US "Don't ever second guess me on Hamas again" [View all]calimary
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Glad you're here. As you can see, this is one of the stickiest wickets we're all discussing! One might well also ask why America's wrong-wing is allowed to call the shots, too. Even though they did NOT win the White House, and there are a million more Americans who voted Democratic in the last election but that didn't count because republi-CON state legislatures tilted the playing field with their gerrymandering. Especially since our forces were evidently asleep at the switch when it came to looking anywhere beyond the Beltway. All the DNC's focus was on national elections and they neglected much-needed emphasis on state politics. They weren't paying as much attention. And in a KEY election - on the DECADE mark (2010) - allowed the bad guys to capture majorities in multiple state legislatures AND more often than not, the available governorships that were up for grabs that year. And with the GOP in firm control at the state level, you suddenly had the honor and authority to redraw districts - in THEIR hands. And they used it strategically. And our side got rolled.
On the decade mark - midterm elections or not - WE HAVE TO BE VIGILANT AT THE STATE LEVEL!!! We CANNOT afford to let governors' mansions fall into enemy hands. We CANNOT afford to allow state legislatures turn red, sometimes blood red. There are too many state assemblies and senates that are SO red that there aren't enough Democrats to head off ANY of the damage they can - AND WILL - do.
Thank you debbie (wasserman-schultz). LOVE those blinders you wear! Keep it all inside the fucking Beltway. And watch your President whom you DO succeed in re-electing (and all of us who supported him from coast-to-coast) get hosed at the state level on policy issue after policy issue after policy issue.