1.0 link 42305 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/radical-rightwing-media-s_b_42305.html The Democrats won the midterm elections. To quote President Bush, they "gave the Republicans a'thumpin". While the degree of the country's discontent with Bush policies and incompetence would have suggested a larger tsunami, decades of bipartisan gerrymandering (a practice where the representative chooses his constituents, rather than conversely) stemmed that tide for the Republicans.

The radical rightwing media, whose purpose is to elect Republicans, helped them. Time and again, they magnified Bush's scurrilous assertions of how a Democratic...

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