Yesterday's Fresh Air (click) program was a revelation to me. The show's Website's explanation of the program was:

Ratf**ked author David Daley says that Republicans targeted key state legislative races in 2010 in an effort to control state houses, and, eventually, Congressional redistricting.

I couldn't understand from the broadcast that the guest's book was called Ratfucked, maybe because I hadn't heard the term before. But hey, there's a Wikipedial article about it, so we all should understand the term [an American slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks. It was first brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their book All the President's Men.]

Substitute host Dave Davies said that in the 2012 election, voters cast 1.3 million more ballots for Democratic House candidates than Republican ones. But somehow, we ended up with 247 Republicans and 188 Democrats in the House, and 54 Republicans and 44 Democrats (and 2 Independents) in the Senate ((click) [office of the Clerk of the House]. So, how did this happen? Ratfucked author David Daley says it was all done by strategic, nationwide redistricting after the 2010 census. Worse yet, Daley thinks it will take a generation to correct this legerdemain.

If Daley is right, then we may get a vast majority to defeat Trump in the 2016 election, and still have a huge Republican majority in both the House and the Senate. Is this nightmare really true? Can anything be done to fix it?

-Joe-