But Daley proposes that this particular strain of manipulation is unprecedented in its sophistication, its permanence and its virulence. Beyond the partisan distortion, this mutilation has had the secondary but no less cancerous effect of making congressional districts deeply homogeneous. PhotoRAT____EDThe True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s DemocracyBy David DaleyIllustrated. In his new book, David Daley, the editor in chief of Salon, describes what the Republican strategist Ben Ginsberg has called “Project Rat_____ ”: the strategy of shadowy (but thus far legal) packing, splicing and dicing of congressional districts to secure Republican domination and, in turn, subvert the will of the American voter. In North Carolina, Democratic House candidates won 50.6 percent of the vote, but Republicans seized 9 of the 13 congressional seats.

Source: New York Times June 21, 2016 09:22 UTC