Win At Any Cost

Republicans have had a difficult time convincing voters that their fiscal policy of giving more benefits and tax breaks to the top 1% offers the majority of voters any benefit.  In addition, the Republican policies that effect women, minorities, and immigrants have not succeeded in attracting voters either.  So, the new Republican strategies do not involve changing policies to earn the votes of a majority but to change the rules around elections. After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win. From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatures in states that supported President Barack Obama are considering changing state laws that give the winner of a state's popular vote all of its Electoral College votes, too. Instead, these officials want Electoral College votes to be divided proportionally, a move that could transform the way the country elects its president.  Following an election where Republican control of the House of representatives was only possible because of district gerrymandering that saw Democratic House candidates receiving more than one million more votes than Republican House candidates, Republicans now look to rule changes to win elections.  We have lived with Republican obstructionism and paid the economic price of Republican fiscal policies that, for the past 30 years, resulted in the near death of the middle class and the decline on household income for all but the top 1% of Americans.  Until the Republican party backs policies that favor the majority of citizens the Republican party and Republican candidates are not deserving of election victory.  If citizens allow this theft of democracy to actually occur we all deserve paying the price for our inactions.