but the result of that vote was that of the 14 seats up for grabs, nine of them went to republicans and five of them went to democrats. republicans have so gerrymandered the state that even though democrats got more votes, republicans got nearly double the democrats' number of seats. tada, same thing in the legislature. 300,000 more votes in the state than republicans did. but by the magic of republican gerrymandering, democrats earning 300,000 more votes earned them eight fewer seats in the legislature than the republicans got. but in that same election, when michigan was busy voting for democrats but getting republicans anyway, michiganders voted to repeal the radical emergency manager law. but still the republicans still held majorities in the legislature, five weeks after the election, the republicans passed a replacement bill to the one that just got repealed by the voters. only this time they passed it in a way that could not be repealed the way the old law was. and now 13 weeks after that, republicans in michigan are going for it. they're going for the big one. today at 2:00 p.m. rick snyder of michigan announced he would use the takeover law, the one that got repealed and they reinstated. he would use that to overrule