Scarborough: GOP Cheated Its Way To Majority

Joe Scarborough: Republicans Won House Of Representatives Majority Because Of Gerrymandering (VIDEO)

Joe Scarborough said on Sunday that Republicans owe their majority in the House of Representatives to gerrymandering.

He lamented the loss of the Republican party's popular appeal, and recalled how William F. Buckley criticized certain elements of the conservative movement.

"That has to happen again with this party because it’s getting smaller and smaller," Scarborough said. "In this debate, we actually have conservative thinkers, talking about Ronald Reagan being a RINO — a Republican in name only, because he supported an assault weapons ban. They keep pushing themselves closer and closer to the cliff."

Then he said, "But I just have to say one other really important point, because I made a mistake over the past month talking about how Republicans have also won a majority in the House. As this article I was referencing mentioned, we actually got a minority of votes nationwide in House races. It was just gerrymandering from 2010 that gave us the majority."

His statement came after the Republican State Leadership Committee admitted to targeting state legislature races with the intention of drawing new district lines in order to gain a House majority. "The rationale was straightforward," the organization wrote. "Controlling the redistricting process in these states would have the greatest impact on determining how both state legislative and congressional district boundaries would be drawn."

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Nothing new here, folks... They actually got 1-million fewer votes, but won by cooking-the-districts... It may take 7 more years to completely eradicate the T-baggers, but with their "nothing but old-angry-white-guys" constituency, the GOTP will continue to lose races in the future.

lol

He should have said they won by out-gerrymandering the democrats.

In 2020 the Dems can do their own gerrymandering and then the US can have a Dem majority and become just like other Dem supermajority places like Detroit and California. Broke and corrupt with the press ignoring the scandals. Be careful of what you wish for you may get it.

FredHayek wrote: In 2020 the Dems can do their own gerrymandering and then the US can have a Dem majority and become just like other Dem supermajority places like Detroit and California. Broke and corrupt with the press ignoring the scandals. Be careful of what you wish for you may get it.

Since you've already been slapped down on what ACTUALLY caused California's disastrous budget, (TABOR-type restrictions from extremist budget cutters, super-majorities required to pass tax-law), I'm looking forward to what we can do when we "do unto the GOTP what the GOTP has done to the country."

I'm VERY careful about "what I wish for"...And it is the destruction of the TeaPublicans and their extremism....

Incorrect again. Now in 2013 California does have its supermajority of Dems it needs to pass all the taxes and all the spending it wants. So the pot is set to boil.

FredHayek wrote: Incorrect again. Now in 2013 California does have its supermajority of Dems it needs to pass all the taxes and all the spending it wants. So the pot is set to boil.

Here is what the Mercury News has to say about Democratic Governor Brown:
Even this late in his political travels, the 74-year-old Brown can safely be called a political phenomenon. He's fresh off producing what many are calling a "miracle" deficit-free budget only two years after inheriting $27 billion in red ink.

Not what I heard. My version says his projected tax receipts are way too optomistic, guess we will see, but there is a long tradition in Cali of projected earnings not holding up to optomistic spending estimates, plus they have decades of promised pension payouts they simply can't afford.

Gee, my version says you are wrong.

Guess we will find out the end of fiscal year.