Ratf**ked

Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

David Daley

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Liveright
04 August 2017

History; Elections & referenda; Political parties

"With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks—known to political insiders as ""ratf
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*king""—to an unprecedented level. Flooding state races with a gold rush of dark money, the Republicans reshaped state legislatures where the power to redistrict is held. Reconstructing this previously untold story, David Daley examines the far-reaching effects of this programme, which has radically altered America's electoral map and created a firewall in the House. Ratf
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*ked pulls back the curtain on one of the greatest heists in American political history."

By: David Daley
Imprint: Liveright
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 314g
ISBN: 9781631493218
ISBN 10: 1631493213
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 04 August 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Daley is the editor in chief of Salon and the Digital Media Fellow for the Wilson Center for Humanities and the Arts and the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.