It should be an important question: why the GOP plays the political game of controlling our country better than the Democrats.

One reason that occurs to me is elitism. These days the Grand Old Party is heavily entrenched in the milieu of the elite, or as Bush calls them, "his base." When placed in the uppermost echelons of any social body, it is easy to develop a distorted sense of entitlement.

This mentality of elitism and entitlement is inherently resistant to the chaos of democracy and seeks to establish a predictable order in the system. Thus as long as there has been democracy in America, there have been those seeking to diminish it. Elbridge Gerry, for whom gerrymandering is named was a Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence.

In the end, the question is not about left and right, or Democrat and Republican. The question is who has critical momentum at this point? The forces of order of the forces of reform?

Anybody who knows the history of the Democratic Party of Cook COunty, Illinois (Chicago), where people continued to vote long after they were dead, knows that neither party is above dirty dealing. However, the Republicans seem to have gone in for dirtier tactics on a wider scale than anyone ever has. This leads me to question whether they have to rig elections because they know they cannot honestly and fairly win a majority?