In November 2008, as the electoral returns roiled in, America was stunned by what, from modem standards, amounted to a landslide election for Barack Obama. Pundits proclaimed the Republican Party as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet, as the media swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives was already laying the groundwork to paint the electoral map bright red. As David Daley reveals in Ratfked, the Republicans, by 2012, had redrawn the congressional map so effectively that their house majority was guaranteed through 2020, regardless of the public will. How is this possible? What has happened to corrode the notion of one-person, one-vote? Ralfked documents the far-reaching effects of the Republicans' audacious REDMAP strategy, which has radically altered America's electoral map and has created a firewall in the House, insulating the GOP and its wealthy donors from popular democracy-and pushing our politics to dangerously dysfunctional extremes. RatfKing: An American Slang Term for Political Sabotage First Invoked in the 1920s and Later Popularized by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in all the President's Men. Book jacket.