Title:
Ratf**ked : the true story behind the secret plan to steal America's democracy / David Daley.
Author:
Daley, David (Editor-in-chief), author.
Publication Information:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
©2016
Call Number:
JK1341 .D35 2016
Abstract:
"The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting"--NoveList.
After Obama's historic election in 2008, a small cadre of Republican operatives began plotting the party's comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks-- known to political insiders as "ratf**king"-- 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. 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.
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Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781631491627
Physical Description:
xxviii, 257 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
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.
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