And even then, after puling every last
gerrymandering trick in the book; stacking as many people as possible in urban districts, as few as possible in upstate and suburban ones, drawing crazy shaped districts in NYC and elsewhere to get every possible edge they could and massively outraising a NY DSCC that was deeply in debt... they lost in 2012.
Not exact matches
It amazes me how corrupt the Repub Senate is... from reliance on
gerrymandered districts, adding new districts, buying off corrupt / power hungry Democratic Senators to switch parties (both the Pedro coup and now Jeff Klein), and their corrupt fronting for the NYC Charter school and real estate industries they have used every
trick in the
book to stay
in power.