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, including Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, and Chris Jankowski 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**king"--to a whole new, unprecedented level. Flooding state races with a gold rush of dark money made possible by Citizens United, the Republicans reshaped state legislatures, where the power to redistrict is held. Reconstructing this never- told-before story, David Daley examines the far-reaching effects of this so-called REDMAP program, which has radically altered America's electoral map and created a firewall in the House, insulating the party and its wealthy donors from popular democracy. Ratf**ked pulls back the curtain on one of the greatest heists in American political history.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/14/2016
ISBN: 9781631491627
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.20d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2016 pg. 54
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2016
Library Journal 06/15/2016 pg. 90
Library Journal 02/01/2016
