Limbaugh Suggests Voter Fraud May Be Only Reason Dems Stay in Power

[Revmitchell]

Rush Limbaugh believes that Democrats aren’t as popular as they might seem, so why they keep holding power struck him as confusing. But in reaction to a report about possible voter fraud in Cook County, Limbaugh suspected that––voter fraud––must be a big reason for them continuing to win.

Limbaugh cited polls, as well as less-than-impressive book sales for Hillary Clinton and Andrew Cuomo‘s recent books, to say Democrats aren’t as popular as the media might build them up to be. Of the left in general, Limbaugh said, “They don’t have any audience on their cable news shows. They’re not these rock star, popular, admirable figures that people run around emulating and wish they were like.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/limbaugh-suggests-voter-fraud-may-be-only-reason-dems-stay-in-power/

 

[InTheLight]

I thought it was because they give away free stuff.

 

[poncho]

Democrats are the only reason Limbaugh stays in power.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Gerrymandering is what keeps the GOP in control of the House of Representatives.

 

[carpro]

Democrats are the only reason Limbaugh stays in power.

:laugh: Without a doubt.

 

[carpro]

Gerrymandering is what keeps the GOP in control of the House of Representatives.

After a generation of democrats doing the same thing. Both parties do it. They consider it a benefit of carrying statewide elections.

 

[InTheLight]

After a generation of democrats doing the same thing. Both parties do it. They consider it a benefit of carrying statewide elections.

But it's only done every 10 years, after the census comes out. So the statewide election that really counts for redistricting is the 2010, 2020, 2030, etc. elections. Whoever wins the majority in statewide elections gets to redraw the state maps. And yes, it's only been recently that Republicans have been able to do it (for the most part.)

 

[Revmitchell]

There is nothing in the op about gerrymandering

 

[Crabtownboy]

There is nothing in the op about gerrymandering

You expect Rush to say anything negative about the GOP or the Southern Policy?


Watch the video at: http://www.history.com/topics/1960s/videos/ask-steve-southern-strategy

Political analyst and Nixon campaigner Kevin Phillips, analysing 1948-1968 voting trends, viewed these rebellious Southern voters as ripe for Republican picking. In The Emerging Republican Majority (Arlington House, 1969), he correctly predicted that the Republican party would shift its national base to the South by appealing to whites' disaffection with liberal democratic racial and welfare policies. President Nixon shrewdly played this "Southern strategy" by promoting affirmative action in employment, a "wedge" issue that later Republicans would exploit to split the Democratic coalition of white working class and black voters. (See John Skrentny, The Ironies of Affirmative Action (U Chicago Press, 1996)). This strategy soon produced the racial party alignments that prevail today

http://www.umich.edu/~lawrace/votetour10.htm