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In a survey of the Craziest Politicians of 2014, GQ had difficulty locating any Democrats. Seventeen out of 20 on the list were Republicans, with the only liberals being Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson and Americas reigning nabob of nuttiness, Joe Biden.

In a note appended to the story, GQ defensively said it wasnt guilty of standard liberal-media bias, it just couldnt find any loony Democrats to speak of.

Lets give GQ a little help, shall we? Here are 16 more Democrats to the list of the most cra-cra political figures.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Democratic National Committee Chair (Fla.):

Debbie Wasserman SchultzPhoto: AP

Compared Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to a wife-beater: Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand. I know that is stark. That is direct. But that is reality. What Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. It is not going to happen on our watch. Wait, Im confused, this abuse already happened, is happening but its not going to happen?

Rep. Barbara Lee (Calf.):

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Called for a $26 minimum wage so that people . . . could afford to live in areas now where they cannot afford to live and you would increase diversify in certain communities where you dont have diversity anymore. You would have economic parity. Nah, $26 an hour isnt going to diversity Park Avenue. Try $260 an hour, thatll work!

Sean Eldridge and Chris Hughes, rich and clueless:

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Hey GQ, cant find any crazy Democrats? Here are 16

What do Democrats and Republicans really think of each other?
As the 113th session of Congress comes to a close, PostTV asked five outgoing lawmakers to give their candid thoughts about Republicans and Democrats.

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Are the Democrats the year #39;s biggest losers?
Are the Democrats the year #39;s biggest losers? The Morning Joe panel shares their picks on this year #39;s biggest losers which include: the Democrats and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. MORNING...

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Willie Brow, San Francisco Chronicle

This holiday season, the Democratic Party woke up to find a bare tree and a big lump of coal in its Christmas stocking.

A close look at numbers in the latest Cook Political Report shows that in the wake of the 2014 midterm elections:

Democrats now have the lowest number of House seats since 1928.

The lowest number of Senate seats since 1928.

And Democrats now hold fewer state legislative seats than they have since 1928.

In other words, it is the worst showing in 86 years.

Democrats also have absolutely no white representation in the House in the deep South the only representation they have are brothers.

Meanwhile, Republicans picked up nine seats to win the majority in the Senate, their biggest gain since 1994.

And Republicans didnt lose a single incumbent senator, something they havent done since 2004.

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Democrats 86d in midterm elections

Democrats have filed the paperwork to create a new fundraising committee to pay for the partys 2016 presidential convention.

The new committee will be permitted to raise more than $30,000 per donor per year to be put toward the partys quadrennial presidential nominating convention. The money raised for the convention is on top of the donor cash the Democratic National Committee is allowed to raise for political activities like advertising and digital work.

The new Democratic National Convention Committee 2016 was authorized by Congress this month as part of a legal change to campaign-finance laws that was included in the December deal brokered between Republicans and Democrats to avoid a government shutdown.

Republicans are widely expected to form a similar convention committee in the coming weeks.

The new law permits national political parties to create separate entities to fund political conventions, headquarters and building improvements and legal proceedings like recounts vastly increasing the total amount of money that donors can give to political parties.

Its part of the tug of war between political parties and outside groups like super PACs that has emerged in the aftermath of the landmark 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling.

Outside groups like Karl Roves Crossroads network and the network of political nonprofits formed by oil magnates Charles and David Koch have come to dominate the political landscape in the last three election cycles and have replaced many of the core functions of political parties. Those groups are permitted to raise and spend unlimited sums of cash, so long as they dont coordinate with political parties and candidates. Political committees, on the other hand, are limited to collecting about $30,000 per donor per year.

Campaign-finance watchdogs worry that the new changes will vastly increase the amount of money in politics, while supporters of the changes say that they will help level the playing field between outside groups and political parties.

Conventions were once routinely publicly financed by taxpayers, but this year President Barack Obama signed a law ending the publics subsidy of political conventions giving the money to the National Institutes of Health for pediatric medical research.

Democrats will hold their 2016 convention in Brooklyn, N.Y., Philadelphia or Columbus, Ohio. Adecision on the site is expected early next year.

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Democrats Set Up 2016 Convention Account