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Pick a state, any state, and sue until it’s blue. That is the strategy of former President Barack Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder when it comes to redistricting. They’ve spent millions of dollars on their fight to gerrymander Democrats into permanent (or at least long-term) control of the U.S. House of Representatives. And along the way, they’ve fooled many in the media into believing that they are fighting for “fair maps” while pushing an agenda that puts redistricting into the hands of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats and life-time appointed, activist judges. Thankfully, the U.S. Supreme Court — just recently...

RICHMOND, Va. — Liberal activists confronted House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) at a jobs forum Wednesday at Virginia Commonwealth University, accusing him of focusing on social issues rather than the economy in Congress. The verbal attack also went past policy differences into a personal denigration of Cantor. “If jobs are the most important thing, why have you spent the last five months attacking women’s health,” and National Public Radio, Sandee Delano, a MoveOn organizer shouted at Cantor as the forum concluded. After approaching Cantor, she asked “When are you going to grow up?” and called him “the most smug...

NEA to target Republicans in 2004 Posted: August 20, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Back in 1984, when I wrote "NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education," my goal was to awaken conservatives and Republicans to the fact that the National Education Association had become a radical, leftist political organization using the Democrat Party to achieve its goals. For years, they had been using their extensive local influence to elect liberals and leftists to school boards, municipal governments, state legislatures, and the U.S. Congress. Back in 1967, five years after the NEA had become a labor union, the NEA's...

A good friend put the Trent Lott controversy in perspective for me the other day: It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is.Is Trent Lott a Republican, or Is Trent Lott a Democrat? Bill Clinton 'is' a Democrat. Teddy Kennedy 'is' a Democrat. Bob Torricelli 'is' a Democrat. They all walk. Bob Packwood 'is' a Republican. Bob Livingston 'is' a Republican. Trent Lott 'is' a Republican. They all get lynched by a Democrat media mob. Listen up, folks - this isn't a tactical move on the part of the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself). This...

On the Saturday before Election Day, Bob Brady, congressman, ward leader, and chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic Party, reached into the left-hand desk drawer at his headquarters in Overbrook, pulled out a $50 bill, and tore it in two. He presented one ragged half to his 34th Ward deputy, Melvin Shelton, the other to a committeeman named George Washington. It's a bet they've had going for years. Whoever pulls in more Democratic votes in his division on Election Day gets both halves of the torn $50. Brady could spare it. There was plenty more in his desk drawer. He had about...

DEMOCRACY CORPS JAMES CARVILLE . STANLEY GREENBERG . ROBERT SHRUM 10 G STREET, NE . SUITE 400 . WASHINGTON, DC 20002 202-478-8330 (TEL) . 202-289-8648 (FAX) WWW.DEMOCRACYCORPS.COM Date: April 25, 2002 To: Friends of Democracy Corps From: Stan Greenberg James CarvilleBob ShrumRE: THE MEAT AND POTATOES STRATEGYReport on a New National SurveyWe may finally be entering a period where tactics can shift the Congressional elections – perhaps decisively – in favor of Democrats. As the President’s popularity begins to ease and as the challenge overseas becomes more complicated and protracted,  there is reason to believe that people are turning to...

<p>Congressional Democrats have yet to give voters a "clear direction" of the lawmakers' priorities in this election year, a trio of top strategists said in their latest report.</p> <p>"Democrats are not gaining," wrote James Carville, Stanley Greenberg and Robert Shrum. "Democrats have not made gains on the economy or as the party willing to take on the powerful special interests."</p>