General Discussion

It hasn't. In fact support for the felon among young men and latinos has pretty much collapsed. That may, or may not translate to sitting out the election or voting D. Time will tell, but districts they presumed would have strong support for Republicans from latinos aren't looking so good for them. Sure, they may still win, but when such underlying assumptions fall apart, the whole gerrymandering project can turn out quite different from those original projections.

We must END partisan gerrymandering -- and will if we win in big enough numbers -- but even in the face of the existing framework, predictions of certain electoral doom for Dems are simply not realistic.

And frankly, even if they were realistic, they must be discounted. The surest way to make loses reality is to spread doom and gloom about how powerful they are and how rigged it all is. The truth is we are pretty f-ing powerful and the felon's regime is a rotting corpse hanging around the neck of every Republican.

Will they spend a fortune spreading damnable lies? Of course they will! But as long as we don't surrender the field with defeatist bullshit, we are capable of powerful messaging ourselves. And our job is easier because it's true and popular.

We are also capable of digging deep and contributing to State Democratic Parties to build infrastructure and election protection apparatus NOW that benefits all D candidates -- especially in long ignored so called "red" states.