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NPR: Expert Warns Of 'Real Festival Of Partisan Gerrymandering' In 2021
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/19/836260800/expert-warns-of-real-festival-of-partisan-gerrymandering-in-2021In writing his new book, David Daley was looking to shake off a cynicism that had been following him around for years.
The former editor-in-chief of Salon gained attention in 2016, as the man who chronicled a Republican gerrymandering machine.
Daley's book Ratf**ked gave a play-by-play account of REDMAP, the Republican plan to take over state legislatures in the 2010 election cycle, with an eye on drawing state and congressional maps during the following year's redistricting period that would keep Democrats out of power.
It worked.
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