Ratf**ked

Just out: Ratf**ked:The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy by David Daley.

Elizabeth Drew: “A sobering and convincing account of how the Republicans figured out the way to gain power in the state legislatures and, as a consequence, in the federal government through an unprecedented national effort of partisan redistricting… The thing to do, some Republican operatives concluded, was to focus on winning as many seats in state legislatures as possible in the 2010 midterm election and then press that advantage in the redistricting that would follow—picking up federal and state seats to offset Obama’s 2008 victory.”