Democrats For Senate

Until we have free and fair elections for the House of Representatives and President, I will have to vote for Democrats for the Senate, regardless of their qualifications for the office or whether their opponent would be more qualified.  I strongly believe that everyone, regardless of party affiliation, should follow suit.  

Many Republican state legislatures have redrawn district lines with the idea of maximizing Repiblican districts.  By and large they have succeeded.  The result is that it is very difficult, if not impossible, for the House of Representatives to be controlled by the Democratic Party.  

Republican state legislatures have also begun to change the rules for choosing a President, with an eye to increasing the chances that a Republican will be elected President. In some states where Democrats have scored narrow victories over Republicans lately and law making is controlled by the Republicans, schemes allowing for the state's votes for President to be divided among the candidates rather than all going to one candidate have been proposed.  If the changes that being proposed would have been in place during the last election, the result likely would have been different.  

The only way to balance out these structural advantages in the short term and create a strong incentive for all involved to make wholesale changes in the long term, like having resditricting overseen by impartial bodies, is to have citizens take collective action.  If we vote only Democrats into the Senate, there will be real changes and they will come real quick.  It is time we took some action before our democracy slips completely away from us.