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Ratf**ked : the true story behind the secret plan to steal America's democracy / David Daley.

by Daley, David (Editor-in-chief)

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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton, 2016.

328.73073 D141r

Gerrymandering -- United States.

Apportionment (Election law) -- Corrupt practices -- United States.

Apportionment (Election law) -- Political aspects -- United States.

Proportional representation -- United States.

Election districts -- United States.

United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.

9781631491627 (hc.)

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Rat f**ked : the true story behind the secret plan to steal America's democracy

Ratfucked : the true story behind the secret plan to steal America's democracy

Rat fucked : the true story behind the secret plan to steal America's democracy

xxviii, 257 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-240) and index.

The mastermind: "It will take years to recover" -- Pennsylvania: "So this wasn't a personal attack" -- North Carolina: truly space-age software -- Maptitude: "Donald Duck kicking Goofy" -- Michigan: a garbage dump is the cherry on top -- Ohio: "A small carve out down 77 in Canton" -- Democrats: "They just whistled past the graveyard" -- Florida: "Tampa is far from perfect" -- Wisconsin: "They put my district in a woodchipper" -- Iowa: the redistricting unicorn -- Arizona: "You can't get any more partisan than this" -- A theorem to detect ratfucking.

"How Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives, including Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, and Chris Jankowski began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks to a whole new, unprecedented level. Flooding state races with a gold rush of dark money made possible by Citizens United, the Republicans reshaped state legislatures, where the power to redistrict is held. David Daley examines the far-reaching effects of this so-called REDMAP program, which has radically altered America's electoral map and created a firewall in the House, insulating the party and its wealthy donors from popular democracy. Pulling back the curtain on one of the greatest heists in American political history. David Daley is the editor in chief of salon.com"--Provided by publisher.

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