Gerrymandering, and what it means

Lots of cheerleaders here will tell us often, and loudly, about how we will take the House. As was evidenced by the election in South Carolina, the task is not just difficult. It is nearly impossible. Traditionally gerrymandering has been done to dilute the opponents power, but this time it wasn't. This time they maximized an opponents power within a few select districts, and set up stronger, safer districts for themselves. We saw Sanford win in a district that Romney carried +17. Look at the win ratios. We are winning by huge margins in our districts, while Republicans are winning bu good or fair margins in their districts. They did not dilute themselves to a little advantage to gain more seats, instead they went for a majority of safe seats.

We were up against the worst candidate in the world. When PolySci students are sitting around dreaming of future campaigns, they fantasize about going against an exposed adulterer who misused taxpayer funds to visit his mistress and lied about it. We did that and we lost. If we can't win this, there is so little hope to take the House it might as well be none.

We have to start dealing in reality, and recognizing the fact that the Republicans are not so dumb as we wish. They came up with a brilliant plan, and herded all of us into D+50 districts. Yeah we win there, we could run a decayed corpse and win there.