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Originally Posted by crockett
When I lived in Daytona I voted in three diffrent districts yet I didn't move a single time. Each year it was a diffrent location due to republicians jerrymandering and trying to steal the elections.
One year they managed to have my vote thrown out, by challenging my right to vote.
Republicans are pretty much dirt on my shoes as far as I'm concerned. Democrats might not be perfect or even close, but at least they arent trying to destroy this country.
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It is politics as usual.
The republicans look around and see the voter landscape changing. Latinos are the fastest growing segment of the population in this country. The current generation that is age 15-25 is far more liberal than many previous generations when it comes to social causes. They don't have the racial and sexual hangups their parents and grandparents do. They go to church much less and they are often for gay marriage.
This means the republicans have a couple of options. If they want to win the white house they will have change some of their positions on certain issues and they will have to nominate a candidate that can at least draw some of these votes over to them. That is going to be hard to do because more and more people are registering as independents. Many of those remaining registered republicans are hardcore right wingers. Since they are the ones that vote for their nominee it is hard for a moderate to win the nomination.
So, at the moment it doesn't look like they are changing the party line. The next best option is to make sure that they always hold at least one of the houses. With the redistricting that they have done they have helped themselves out a lot as far as being able to win seats in the house. Of course, the side effect of this is that some of these seats are going to extreme right wingers who won't work with the rest of the republican party so those seats aren't doing them as much good as they would like. Both parties will play the redistricting game, but right now the republicans are in charge of that and they are waging an all our redistricting battle.