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Are you sure you know how gerrymandering works?
Gerrymandering dilutes both sides' votes by making smaller majorities and larger minorities to favor one side.
well, no. "well done" gerrymandering dilutes only one side's votes, that is why republicans love it.
notice the disproportionate results in top right corner. the votes literally went away...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/DifferingApportionment.svg
But it doesn't weaken only one side. They may have gotten rid of ONE Democratic district, but they severely WEAKENED THREE Republican districts. That's the kind of thing that can backfire badly in a bloodbath election.
Never thought of that, lets hope you are right.
I know red politicians in Texas are sweating because of their gerrymander. They used 2024 voting data including the insane upswing of Latinos who voted for him for whatever reason... Now new polling shows those aren't guaranteed votes anymore, they might even vote blue.
Always remember this axiom about MAGA: They are profoundly ignorant, virtuosically incompetent, and fuck up EVERYTHING they touch. This will be no exception.
How is only one side diluted here? Out of five districts, there are two districts with a single yellow vote (diluted to half as much as proportional), and three with four blue votes (also diluted to 2/3 as much as proportional).
The assumption is that some purple voters will turn blue.
That's irrelevant to the context here.
Are you sure you know? Gerrymandering backfires when taken too far.