Ben Domenech Quotes
We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018.
Domenech, Ben. "The 2018 Midterms Were No Blue Wave." The Federalist, FDRLST Media, 7 Nov. 2018.
This seeming abnormality was the result of most of the House of Representatives Congressional Districts being heavily weighted to one party or the other, some the result of demographics and most the result of intentional gerrymandering by the politicians in the State Legislatures. The Republicans at that time were much better at this than the Democrats and very few of the districts were competitive between the parties. Many Democratic urban districts had small democratic areas of the suburbs added to them giving them a larger majority than they needed to win while taking them out of the suburban districts making them easier to win for the Republicans. The original Constitutional concept that the House represented the people proportionately was then undermined as the Republicans could easily win the vast majority of the congressional seats and at the some tome garner millions of votes less nationally than the Democrats,
This was the result of Gerrymandering over the last decade where the Republicans outmaneuvered the Democrats in enough states so that they could control the House even of the Democrats had a large majority of the votes for congress members. See {632784} for an explanation of Gerrymandering technique.
Owner of one of the only 2 Mexican Television Networks. There js no other industrial democracy that has a two party system; the others have 3 or more parties. Other democracies have their election day scheduled for a non-work day—usually a weekend. A number of states of the U. S. also allow voting on weekends and on multiple days. The individual states have the right (within limits) to set the time and rules of elections. Those states where conservatives have control tend to restrict voting as narrowly as they can, as their supporters tend to be more affluent and have jobs where they can vote on a Tuesday without economic penalty or family dislocation. Where liberals control, they tend to take steps to make voting very easy, especially of the poor and working class, as they have more supports in these groups.
Ben Domenech is an American writer, blogger, editor and television commentator. He is the co-founder and the publisher of The Federalist, host of The Federalist Radio Hour, and writes The Transom, a daily subscription newsletter for political insiders. He also co-founded the RedState group blog.
