The stupidest post-election blather I've heard yet*: soon-to-be-former-Senator Rick Santorum said something like "This was just a little too steep of a mountain to climb, but it was not for lack of people wanting us to climb it."
I'm pretty sure it was for lack of about a third of a million people wanting him to climb it.
*But it's early on Wednesday. Surely several people will top this by week's end. Howard Dean? Tony Snow? John Kerry? Dubya?
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Gerrymandering doesn't determine outcomes, it only skews them. I'll quote Bob Novak, only the most conservative op-ed columnist on the planet in this century, first two paras of yesterday's column. I direct your attention to the last sentence....
"With one Republican bastion after another falling as returns poured in for Democrats on Tuesday night, the GOP's carefully constructed defenses crumbled. The party's barriers failed to prevent the election from being a referendum on Iraq, George W. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress. It was a failure of concept as well as execution.
"That failed concept relied on friendly, familiar Republican incumbents, who had delivered government pork for their district, negating intense voter hostility by using the party's time-tested machinery to get out its vote. These tactics proved useless in the face of a wave that was not so much pro-Democrat as it was anti-Republican. Only gerrymandered House districts prevented a landslide that would have given the Democrats a House majority of historic proportions, approaching 50 seats."
QED?
--Mike
http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak
/130266,cst-edt-novak09.article
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