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The state’s congressional districts could be reconfigured to increase the share of Democratic voters in districts currently represented by Republicans, or in a way that forces Republican officeholders to face off against one another.

Civil service roles in the U.S. were originally designed to serve the Constitution and the public, not individual officeholders.

Or what if an officeholder loses an election and refuses to respect the people's will?

The Democratic Party, they write, “fosters a relatively pragmatic, results-oriented style of politics in which officeholders are rewarded for delivering concrete benefits to targeted groups in order to address specific social problems.”

Little known to many other Democratic officeholders, people want to be led, not petitioned.