{"article":{"id":296388,"heading":"gerrymandering by republicans","author":"elections idVer:01b8c47fd645288a91dbf7241fcd2","created":"2018-02-10 04:41:38","modified":"2018-02-10 04:41:38","last_modified":"Sat, 10 Feb 2018 11:41:38","article":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/the-reluctant-activist\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/the-reluctant-activist\/<\/a> <br><br> The Reluctant Activist <br>  <br> Feb. 5, 2018 <br><br> Turns out gerrymandering is quite sinister, anti-democratic at its core and done in the darkness of a small conference room&mdash;the quintessential backroom deal, but not a deal, because the other guys aren&rsquo;t even in the room. Robbing people of the power of their vote is the nitty-gritty of politics that is never sent up on an SNL sketch.\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"gerrymandering by republicans","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2018\/02\/296388.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}