ACORN: Gerrymandering a permanent Democratic majority?
As those who read conservative blogs and watch FoxNews know, the New York Times “spiked an election eve story on the possible illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN’s canvassing arm.“ While I doubt ties between the Democrat’s campaign and that corrupt organization would have cost Obam the election, it may have shaved a point or two off his margin of victory and cost him a state.
Not just that, it would have also shown that Obama had misrepresented his campaign’s relationship (and possibly his own) to that left-wing oganization indicted or facing indictment in several states.
Now, that the Administration is including ACORN in the 2010 census, it behooves us to know what they’re up to. An intelligent and intrepid young blogger has been sifting through their documents and finds that the organization, possibly eligible for billions in “stimulus” funding, has a plan which it dubs ““Swing Congressional District Project” to “impact the post-2010 Congressional redistricting process by building progressive electoral majorities in swing state legislative districts” with the goal of building a “long-term, targeted organizing and electoral capacity needed if we are to have a Congress with a progressive [i.e. left wing] majority.”
Now, that they have such a Congress, will ACORN succeed in helping state legislatures gerrymander incumbent Democrats into safe seats? Those Democrats will have to first survive the 2010 elections. And since many state legislative seats will be up next year, even with ACORN’s federally beef-up coffers allowing it to divert resources to its electioneering efforts, those seats may not flip in the direction ACORN would like; people may not be so inclined to vote for the Democrats as they become increasingly aware of the bloated budgets Democrats hath wrought. I mean, just this past week, the forces of big government outspent opponents of the California ballot initiatives by (according to some accounts) a margin of 10 to 1 and lost by a margin of nearly 2-1.
We can only hope that ACORN’s efforts will be similarly unsuccessful. But, at least now, thanks to a diligent blogger, we have a better idea what they’re up to. But, I daresay the MSM will pay as little attention to this as they did to the Times’s spiking of the story of ACORN’s ties to the Obama campaign. So, just chck out the post.
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Nope. That sort of fraud only bolsters your campaign when your a liberal. Brain dead lemmings like Levi, boob, ghillie etc. will defend it (without ANY idea what’s going on) as fairness and the bastardized notion of equality.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — May 24, 2009 @ 5:53 am - May 24, 2009
The main reason is that liberals like those mentioned above CAN’T defend their beliefs and they know too well that they can’t win at the ballot box without fraud and lying to the American people. Whether it be a senate seat in NJ, tossing election laws in FL, throwing out military votes, recruiting the dead nationwide, or running an Affirmative Action candidate, the left will clearly do whatever it takes, without telling people what they stand for, to win.
And cock bites like the ones mentioned above will attack anybody who doesn’t agree with them without offering any kind of rational defense.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — May 24, 2009 @ 6:03 am - May 24, 2009
I realize that gerrymandering can help a party maintain seats (and, subsequently, a majority) it wouldn’t otherwise be able to, and if one can gerrymander a popular incumbent from the other party out of power or bolster the ability of an unknown or questionably popular candidate from its own party to get elected in a particular district, there’s no doubt gerrymandering can be a help.
Even so, it seems that gerrymandering can backfire, at least later if not right away. Isn’t the idea of gerrymandering usually to give your own party lots of districts that marginally lean your way and the other party as few districts as possible, albeit districts that the other party will win by huge margins? I realize it’s not quite that simple, but it’s that generally the idea? If so, a district that is, say, 55-45 in favor of the gerrymandering party could easily swing to the other party once the gerrymandering party loses favor with the public. If there are lots of those districts, it would seem to me that a bad election cycle would be more devastating to the party than if they had kept the districts as is. Instead of getting blown out, maybe they would be hanging on to win districts that are 60-40 in an average year.
I hope those who know how gerrymandering works better than I do can explain how well it actually does work. I admit I’m not an expert about it.
Of course, none of this changes the fact that ACORN is a corrupt organization and the public should hold the Democrats responsible for their relationship with ACORN.
Comment by cme — May 24, 2009 @ 7:45 am - May 24, 2009
cme,
Here is a map of Ohio’s congressional districts and how Gerrymandering affects them.
The 18th district is likely the worst offender, as it’s something of a ‘leftover’ district. By keeping the rural counties together in that ugly shape, it concentrates their influcene in one congressional represenative. And in that district it makes it easy for Zack Space to campaign, since you only need to hit Newark, Zanesville, Cambridge and maybe Chillocothe. Also, they’re building a 4 lane bypass from Columbus through Newark and Chillocothe to Cambridge, linking these cities and making commutes easier.
As a result the rest of the district gets screwed. Mt. Vernon, for example is withering on the vine, we have people driving from there and Coshocton to Columbus daily because there’s no jobs and no money.
I hope that helps explain Gerrymandering.
(Bruce, Dan, Could you remove this post from the Earnestness thread, some how my browser jumped it there)
Comment by The_Livewire — May 24, 2009 @ 8:36 am - May 24, 2009
Gerrymandering is a fact of life in this system that we find ourselves in.
Repubs did it (see Tom Delay’s incredible map of Texas) and Dems do it.
I am just glad that side I support is in power to tilt it my way this time! Just like you all wish your side was in power to tilt it your way. I doubt any of you would be complaining if the latter was true.
Comment by gillie — May 24, 2009 @ 12:12 pm - May 24, 2009
actually gilboy, I -do- complain, for the reasons listed above and because it’s a travesty.
Not everyone sees fit to manipulate others to maintain power.
Comment by The Livewire — May 24, 2009 @ 1:37 pm - May 24, 2009
It seems like the 2010 census is ripe for a lawsuit. Isn’t the conduct of the census specified by statute to be a Dept of Commerce responsibility? Or can the president just dictate that it be handed to whomever be wants?
And where is there authority to handover a government responsibility to any NGO (not just ACORN)? And where is the objection to handing billions of tax dollars to a group that’s been implicated in criminal voter fraud for years? If we’re gong to politicize the census, where is my representation?
Gillie – I’d have an issue with this if Rush Limbaugh was put in charge of the census. I don’t think the Framers had it in mind that districts look like Ohio’s. The census should be apolitical – conducted by (hopefully) professional statisticians.
Comment by SoCalRobert — May 24, 2009 @ 2:50 pm - May 24, 2009
ACORN is being investigated in eleven states. It is possible that it had a larger impact than just a point or two. Not only Bama benefitted but down the ticket candidates might also have benefitted. I wonder how much Al Franken has been helped by them?
Comment by Roberto — May 24, 2009 @ 3:46 pm - May 24, 2009
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