US Politics: Something I've Been Worrying About...

[dewline]

...got another kick in the pants to keep it moving:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/wisconsin-lawmakers-endorse-radical-constitutional-idea

Dominionists on the move, I fear.

Comments

[mmcirvin]

...It appears that Republicans may hang onto control of the Virginia House of Delegates 51-49, though some races are still too close to call and going into recounts. That despite the fact that the Democrats led the popular vote by a significant margin; Virginia HoD is pretty heavily gerrymandered for the Republicans.

I am also worried that the 2020 census may be so bungled that we can't even trust it, possibly deliberately. If a lot of states have a large chunk of their Hispanic population just disappear, we'll know what probably happened.

[dewline]

Shades of what Harper did to the Canadian census of 2011...

[thewayne]

It's sad that so many states have the popular vote won by the Dems yet are still controlled by the Republicans.  The RNC did an amazing job in 2000 and 2010 with what they did, and it's going to take a long time to unwind it.  And unless they put laws and possibly state constitutional amendments in to place to prevent repeats, there's little to discourage the RNC from trying it again some time. I saw some pretty positive stories from Virginia about felons getting to vote.  That might have made a big difference in this and future elections, at least in that state.  I wonder how many countries continue to crush the civil rights of offenders who have completed their 'debt to society' like we do.  I know there is a movement in some states to remove the check box from job applications indicating that you have previous criminal convictions, I believe at least one state has passed such a bill.