Democrats should not expect future hand-outs like from their voters, unless they actually, for once, dear god, do something useful with the power we just handed them.
spoiler
They won’t.
They still managed to steal mine :(
Also, Alison Gill is one of my better news sources, specifically her Daily Beans podcast.
Remember to clean your phones, folks
I’m just gonna hose the whole house down on Sunday.
Some of these states might actually have the opportunity to pass election regulation laws to prevent gerrymandering, voter suppression, voter caging, etc. Heck, they might even be able to address ballot stacking. (They might have to add consequences to officials and NGOs who do these things anyway. Harsh fines or something.)
Imagine if the US actually strived to make its elections more free and fair.
Ban gerrymandering and implement ranked choice.
You ban gerrymandering by passing laws to create strict rules about how districts are made. It’s tricky but there’s some science.
Ranked choice is easier to implement at the state level. At the national level we need a Constitutional amendment. However, there is good news, we might get enough states onboard with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact to kill the Electoral College.
They put voters in cages? 😳
Voter caging has been in the news an awful lot lately, mostly regarding DoJ’s lists.
The most typical gerry mandering strategy is designed to lose. Ideally in one place instead of two. So it should be normal to lose in a gerry mandered district.
What?
Like. I don’t know how to respond and l don’t want to increase your engagement.
If you’re the rest of the comments here, these districts all lost far, far beyond gerrymandering.
Everywhere is purple, when you have 66% in deep red areas, you dun’ fukd up.
gerry mandering can actually blow up on your face real quick, that’s what happened in Hungary
Eh, they just switched the right-wingers to a slightly less corrupt one who used to be a member of the same party.
Bro, he sat as president for a total of 20 years. He just needed to go, anyone but that dude. Fat, bloated piece of shit Russian vassal.
Are there any details on this? I can see that Texas District 23 is a huge one that flipped. It looks like it has a lot of rural voters in it, so I’d assume that it would normally have been a safe Republican district. But, I don’t really know Texas politics.
Is there anywhere that breaks down what things were like before the latest gerrymander, and where Republicans lost a formerly safe seat?
AP’s map shows which seats flipped, but I’m not sure that’s exactly what you’re looking for. They don’t do a comparison to pre-jerrymandered results.
Where can I see trump and co losing their shit and flailing over this??
This may temporarily satisfy your urges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOVsdObxjGc
Dr. G talks about Trump’s post election body language (and his progressive dementia)
Probably overshadowed by Republicans in the fundraising sector ecstatic at the scale of money they’ll be able to skim. Parties don’t really lose anything when the lose. They are back in power in 10 years, and they make money in the meantime. And isn’t making money the bigger picture? Both parties do this.
The result is that voting does very little to persuade the parties to serve us over their doaners. If they do what their doaners want they make money. If they lose elections they make money. So when picking between doing what doaners want and winning elections, guess which one they are going to do.
Orgasmic dare I say.
I woke up super early somehow.
Im too excited to go back to bed lol.
There are going to be a lot of angry old white men today.
Plenty of happy old white men today. And black, and brown, and pink, and
Im not one of em, Im ecstatic! I feel like im walkin on rainbows or somethin
I chose to avoid the news yesterday and just deal with it in the morning.
Never imagined I’d see a Blue Texas
Mississippi. Mississippi!
Mississippi?
Mississippi!
What’s crazy for Mississippi is their house districts. Very clearly has one packed Democrat district and the rest of them split among rural areas to give Republicans 3/4 seats.
Lurking b and pol is amazing to watch rn holy fuck
Just went to r/conservative.
Damn, the people there are horrible and quite open about racism being their number one priority. But it is nice to see them despair.
To be fair, it’s like 8 people and a few thousand bots.
I still remember them celebrating that they got a meme into the presidency, back in ‘16.
The 4chan subreddit gloated about it after the election too, in their sidebar.
Wondering how many of the people on those forums have had their lives negatively impacted by Trump administration 1 and 2.
That venn diagram is a circle
I’m not gonna go myself but I would love screenshots
/pol/ right now
accurate
Sadly, my house district was not one of them. Its shape is absolutely ridiculous and designed so that basically all the blue areas get clumped into one with only irrelevant portions left (if any) in others. It was still neck-and-neck for a while at least.
America just blue itself
