{"id":10213,"date":"2013-04-06T02:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10213"},"modified":"2013-04-06T02:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T09:57:08","slug":"the-fix-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/06\/the-fix-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fix Is In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last November, it became apparent that the 1%, combined with the assorted extremists they have embraced are not enough people to win presidential elections.  Trickle down doesn\u2019t work anymore, because Americans have seen the trickle down only gushes up.  Jobs, jobs, jobs doesn\u2019t work any more, because Republican jobs, jobs, jobs are in China.  However, in 2010 they did so well that they have been able to gerrymander so many states that they can now exercise minority rule in many blue states, and they are trying to use that to steal the Presidency.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Attorney General Eric Holder has a solid record on voting rights, and he\u2019s criticized Republican state lawmaker\u2019s efforts to restrict the franchise in the past \u2014 at one point comparing voter ID laws to an unconstitutional poll tax<\/a><\/font>. At a speech in New York<\/a><\/font> yesterday, Holder added a new line<\/font><\/a> to his previous attacks on voter suppression, suggesting that DOJ will respond with legal action if any Republican state lawmakers move forward with their proposals to rig<\/a><\/font> the Electoral College<\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Long lines are unnecessary. Shortened voting periods are unwise and inconsistent with the historic ideal of expanded participation in the process. Recent proposed changes in how electoral votes are apportioned in specific states are blatantly partisan, unfair, divisive, and not worthy of our nation<\/strong><\/span>. Let me be clear again: we will not sit by and allow the slow unraveling of an electoral system that so many sacrificed so much to construct.<\/font><\/p>\n

There are two versions of the GOP\u2019s election rigging plans, both of which Republicans want to enact exclusively in blue states. One version would allocate electoral votes in several targeted blue states by Congressional district<\/a><\/font>, rather than to the winner of the state as a whole. The other version, which is currently being pushed by Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R), would allocate electoral votes proportionally \u2014 so that Mitt Romney would have won a significant chunk of Pennsylvania\u2019s electoral voters<\/a><\/font> even though President Obama carried the state. As with the congressional districts plan, Pileggi\u2019s election-rigging plan would give away electoral votes to Republicans in his blue state, while still keeping all red state electors in GOP hands… [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For the record, I think Holder is the worst Democratic AG in my memory, because of his failure to prosecute war criminals, Banksters, and other deserving Republicans, so I have no intent to blows his horn here.  Nevertheless is is important that we support him in thoise issues where he is right, and this is one of them.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last November, it became apparent that the 1%, combined with the assorted extremists they have embraced are not enough people to win presidential elections.  Trickle down doesn\u2019t work anymore, because Americans have seen the trickle down only gushes up.  Jobs, jobs, jobs doesn\u2019t work any more, because Republican jobs, jobs, jobs are in China.  However, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}