PublishedNorton, June 2016 |
ISBN9781631491627 |
FormatHardcover, 288 pages |
Dimensions24.4cm × 16.5cm × 2.5cm |
With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan.
These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks-known to political insiders as "ratfking"-to an unprecedented level. Flooding state races with a gold rush of dark money, the Republicans reshaped state legislatures where the power to redistrict is held. Reconstructing this previously untold story, David Daley examines the far-reaching effects of this programme, which has radically altered America's electoral map and created a firewall in the House. Ratfked pulls back the curtain on one of the greatest heists in American political history.
