Last night, Stephen looked at how America's changing demographics are making the GOP resort to even more dirty tactics like gerrymandering to hold on to their power.



1/21/2013: STUART VARNEY: Rich people, powerful people in America today are reviled, aren't they? They're dismissed as fat cats who don't pay their fair share. STEVE DOOCY: Class warfare! STUART VARNEY: We just hate 'em, right? Rich people are evil! And yet, along comes this show, Downton Abbey, rich people prominently featured, and they're generous! They're nice people! They create jobs for heaven's sake! They're classy. They've got style. And we love 'em! That show is wildly popular, which poses a threat to the left, doesn't it?

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Anyway, what are you going to do? We are looking at four more years of this guy. And thanks to Obamacare, we might live to see it. Where did we go wrong? The Republicans had everything going for them! A terrible economy, an unpopular incumbent, and a positive message for the American voter: less than half of you are parasites!

And still, we lost. And with America's changing demographics, it only looks bleaker for Republicans in the future. Unless science can find a way for Latino women to give birth to old white men.

Where is the funding, Koch brothers? Get on it!

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Yes, even though they lost the popular combined vote, the GOP kept control of the House by a 33-seat margin. And they did it without watering down the Republican Party platform. ("Rape Is So Misunderstood.")

Now, just how did the Republicans do it? (Missionary Style?) They did it with a little thing I call gerrymandering. (Named for Gerald Mander, The Third) You see, back in 2010, Republican state legislatures across the nation redrew Congressional districts to make them a lock for the GOP. And in some cases, just to send a message to the Democrats.

Because that's the beauty of gerrymandering. Instead of voters getting to pick their leaders, leaders get to pick their voters. (Me, The People) And I say, why not? We should trust our leaders. After all, we voted them in. (Once, Back in the 70's.)

Well, now that the GOP has its gerrymandering game down, they are ready to take it to the next level. Republican legislators in the key swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, are lining up behind proposals that would allocate presidential electoral college votes by congressional district. As a supporter of this idea, Pennsylvania state senator Dominic Pileggi argues, "the current winner-take-all system is inherently unfair because the losing party... gets no credit in the electoral count".

Yeah, the losing party never gets to pick the President. This legislation just allows Republicans to level the playing field. (And Turn It Into A Golf Course) Because folks, here's the great part. If you applied this plan to the 2012 election, even though 5 million more people voted for the Democrat, the Republican would've won the presidency by 22 electoral votes.

So it's a win-win. (Except For The Guy Who Won) I mean, it's like a Cinderella story. It's like Rocky. (In That Stephen's Pulling for the White Guy)