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"You know what our party thinks? 'We're good people who have good ideas. That's enough, isn't it?' Being tough enough, indicate enough, and vicious enough is just not what they want." Well, tough, mean, and vicious is not only for Karl Rove any further. Within the 2006 midterm elections, the Democratic party decisively concluded 12 years of electoral humiliation by seizing again Congress and adding an end to Republican guideline. The Thumpin' is the story of that historic victory, and the main one man at the center on whom everything hinged: Congressman Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Chicago Tribune reporter Naftali Bendavid possessed exclusive access to Emanuel for per year and a half and ended up with the story of an eternity, the thrilling blow-by-blow of how Emanuel remade the Democratic party in his own image, threw away the old playbook, tore the litmus test, broke every piety about fair play, and went for the jugular to handle down all-too-familiar losses in favor of a ground-shifting triumph. The new Democratic-majority Congress is actually the home that Rahm built. When Emanuel got the job operating the DCCC almost two years ago, no person believed triumph was within the Democrats' knowledge. The Republicans possessed seized control of the House in 1994 through the Clinton supervision and gerrymandered GOP-leaning districts to create a merciless political map. But in 2005 the popularity of the conflict was declining, and the president's poll amounts weren't good. And in Emanuel, the Democrats finally possessed a killer, a ruthless better like Karl Rove or Lee Atwater, on the side. The Thumpin' can take us inside the main element races and the national strategy-making that migrated the Democrats from forecasted profits of three seats in 2005 to a sweeping gain of 28 seats when the votes were finally counted. It really is a portrait in power of a brutally effective taskmaster and the tolling of a fresh era in the way elections will be fought ever after.
