A Website That Wants to Help Republicans Win in Cities

By now, it's conventional wisdom that the Republican Party has an urban problem. In the last election cycle, Barack Obama won 85 percent of Philadelphia, 88 percent of Baltimore City, and 74 percent of Cook County in metropolitan Chicago. To the extent that national Republican candidates have mentioned cities at all, it's often awkwardly been to run against them. Otherwise, the party has been so absent from the inner city that Rand Paul made news late last year simply by turning up in Detroit.

At the local level, San Diego just surprisingly elected a Republican mayor. But Kevin Faulconer is now one of just three Republicans leading the country's 25 largest cities. Take those same 25 cities and look at their city councils. In Texas, local council elections are non-partisan, but the rest of the lot?