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[¥akaSteelhead]

Use the dominancy in the Supreme Court, house and senate to Jerrymander districts to the point where we still have election but that democrats can't win.

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Where do we really stand in America, Democrats and Republicans?

The honest answer, I think, is that we don't know yet, because you had an election that was dead even in 2000. You had an election in 2002 where we won a lot of close races. And then you have an election that we won by 2.7 percent, 2.8 percent in 2004, with some huge turnouts and all that. And so I don't think we know the answer to that. I don't think the Democrats have been marginalized yet, though I do think that they have been put in a position where they can't compete with important constituencies right now. They can't compete with people that really care about certain values in this country, so it makes it very difficult for them to carry certain states or certain districts. And so I think they are in a more difficult spot.

I think a bigger part of their difficulty is they have no organizing principle right now. And that is, they have no person to organize around. They haven't had this since Clinton left the presidency. Their entire organizing principle for the last four years has been anti, meaning it's all been against the president. It hasn't been for somebody. … And they don't have a set of policies that people, average voters in their minds say, "This is what the Democrats stand for. This is what they stand for in foreign policy. This is what they stand for in the war on terror. This is what they stand for on the changing economy."

And so without a person, and without a set of policies, that puts them in a difficult spot, because they have to solve, I think, both of those problems before they can really start winning elections. Can they? Yeah. They can, because this country is very, very close, very, very tight. It's still a country that Democrats do very, very well in urban areas, and can compete in suburban areas, and are having a more difficult time in exurban and rural areas.

The way I look at it is, it's like a basketball game that's close. We have a slight lead and the possession arrow is in our favor. But that doesn't mean that you can't lose the game, and that doesn't mean there's still a lot of time left for the Democrats to find a person, find somebody to organize around, and find a set of policies that the public will support. …

4 years later America elected the first Black president, a Democrat.

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