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Virginia voters approve new congressional maps in blow to Trump
(www.theguardian.com)
HAHA SUCK MY NUTS KEN PAXTON
As a Texas, I'm all for Ken Paxton sucking everyone's nuts, but why him, in particular? I feel like I might already know the answer, but I'm too overwhelmed by everything here to solve this puzzle.
Edit: reread the actual article title. Tit-for-tat with Texas. Got it. Yes, fuck us indeed.
It's understandable. Your job as a fartographer has to be so time consuming. The sheer amount of data to pour through must be overwhelming.
to pour through
To pore through
The ones who pour through their data would be the diarrheographers, and I guarantee that you don't wanna meet one of those.
And Dems did it legally in each case. Fuck off, Ken!
Just get proportional representation for fucks sake.
That wouldn’t be fair to republicans, who cannot win without cheating.
Everytime it's brought up, Republicans shoot it down. The GOP made this bed, so now they gotta lie in it.
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The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas’s Republican-controlled legislature to redraw that state’s congressional maps in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections.
I guess that it looks like the the early gerrymandering effort may, when one includes the backlash, have wound up on the net reducing the number of seats that Republican legislators hold in the House relative to Democrats, then.
Probably would have been better for the Trump administration to have left well enough alone.
Assuming states like Texas even gerrymandered things safely. With the current approval ratings some of the districts they redrew are at a higher chance of being flipped.
I'd love to see that, but man imagine the chorus of "unfair they must have cheated!" that would erupt from the right.
I mean, they're going to do that anyway, but still
There was gerrymandering on both sides, but definitely more in Red states. Kind of a stupid fight to start, because there was always more room to gerrymander on the blue side.
Dems would not be redistricting if the MAGAs hasn't tried it first, but that shows an improvement. In the past, Dems wouldn't have tried redistricting, even if MAGA had succeeded in doing it, because it wouldn't have been "fair."
This time, they saw MAGA trying to grab an advantage, so the Dems did it too, except they did it right, so it passed by the courts, while the MAGA attempts didn't.
We are finally seeing the Dems fighting back, and fighting back smart, which is something MAGA will NEVER be able to compete with. We need the Dems to play a lot more of that Hard Ball.
It feels like a pebble thrown against a mountain
I don't see why you think this. congress is the one the constitution depends on to impeach presidents who violate the constitution.
Sometimes gerrymandering has the opposite effect. And of all the shit Republicans have done and gotten away with seems like a very small step. Still need to win and elect those who will hold Republicans accountable.
That is a lesson the Republicans in Texas are about to learn. More than a couple Texas seats that would have been safe red are vulnerable to a moderate-sized Blue Wave...especially if that wave includes rebounding and/or gains among Latinos.
Here is the thing nobody is considering though. Republicans right now are extremely unpopular so any district this coming election could be heavily skewed until the American populace does what it's notorious for a few years later and that is forget.
I don't think any data we get from this coming election will be reliable
republicans just need to go period. conservatives need to go back to what they were before nixon and be consistent regardless of if they are in charge or not. if the party is just we for us and against our enemies its just going to be garbage nutters.
Glad to hear that some voters have some common sense
It was too fucking close, too. I'm glad it passed.
I'm also happy that almost all of Hampton Roads was very much on the YES side. Poquoson went very NO and York went somewhat NO, but even James City County and even Charles City County went YES, although James City County was the smallest margin in the entire state.
Newport News where I live was solidly YES. I'm a mod in the subreddit - the last thing I'm doing with reddit - and we got brigaded to hell from people outside the community in three threads about the vote. It was crazy.
Bills have been brought up several times to make district mapping non-partisan, and/or by 3rd party independent agencies. Usually Dems bring them up and republicans vote them down or sabotage them in any way they can.
The process of approving such a process would be partisan, and agreeing on a notion of non-partisanship would be partisan. Anything that would budge the balance of power from where it is would be called partisan. We’re so far down the partisan hole.
I found it really odd that the legislature are able to gerrymander in the first place. Why isn't this process in control of an independent board? Some of the gerrymandered district maps are laughably corrupt.
Republicans generally vote against implementing those boards.
Now if only NC could figure out how to unfuck the maps.
Americans, your voting system is from deep inside the ass. Get your shit right, don’t intervene in the other countries affairs until that. I don’t want to see or hear any news from USA before that.
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