Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy [Hardcover]

With Barack Obamas 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, including Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, and Chris Jankowski began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricksknown to political insiders as ratf**kingto a whole new, unprecedented level. Flooding state races with a gold rush of dark money made possible byDaleys book provides a blow-by-blow account of how this happened. He draws on investigative reports, interviews and court documents to give readers an eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see&.What Daley makes clear is that ruthless partisan gerrymandering is not good for democracy and makes it that much more difficult to wrestle control of the House away from the GOP. Democrats should read this book.Extraordinarily timely and undeniably important.Compelling.The way dark money was translated into congressional majorities is one of the great, sinister stories of our time. But in David Daley the shadow figures have finally met their match.The explosive account of how Republican legislators andpolitical operatives fundamentally rigged our Americandemocracy through redistricting.