States, like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, need to stop electing Repuke state legislators.

[MoonRiver]

We could avoid all this cheating and lying so easily then.

[Greybnk48]

1. Add Wisconsin to that group. n/t

[MoonRiver]

2. Ok

[Iggo]

3. Everybody does.

Also, they won't.

[MoonRiver]

5. Why? I really don't understand.

[exboyfil]

4. SC already said gerrymandering is ok

It just so happens to also have a disparate impact on minority voters, but ok if done for political purposes.

That was 5-4 with Ginsberg. Guess what it will be with Barrett.

[NCDem47]

6. There's a deeeep bench of hateful white males in these states.

Add gerrymandering, and voila!

[enki23]

7. They don't. Gerrymandering does.

Time to accept these truths:

1) there are an enormous number of outright fucking fascists in the USA who do not give a fuck about democracy except when it directly benefits them. We call them "Republicans" most of the time.
2) Many of those people are in charge of drawing congressional districts giving them an enormous advantage

[Poiuyt]

11. Gerrymandering is extremely bad in Wisconsin

Most people in WI vote Democratically, but the Republicans retain the power.

[Greybnk48]

13. Absolutely true about Wisconsin gerrymander!

Paul Ryan won elections he should never have, and Robin Vos does too, just to name two. We will never escape minority rule in Wisconsin without legit district maps--one's that don't look like seahorses.

[LeftInTX]

8. All states need to stop electing Repukes!

[33taw]

9. I would love WI to be less gerrymandered. Hopefully, we can get something more manageable

in 2022 with Evers. We’ll see.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

12. Talk to Gerry.

Ya know, Gerrymandering?

[gollygee]

14. There are some parts of Michigan that have almost no Democrats

Those areas are going to have Republican state legislators. Who apparently get bribed by the president in the hotel lobby he owns after a meeting that supposedly wasn't about election interference.

[Demsrule86]

15. Out side of the cities in PA, there is what used to be called Alabama...and they are districts that

have representatives. This is why they control the legislatures and why we need a 50 state strategy to elect our folk state wide as well as national elections.

[Freddie]

18. It's not just the Alabama part

I’m in purple-blue Bucks County and we can’t get rid of our Repug state rep no matter what. He does a lot of favors for constituents and comes across as the “reasonable moderate” guy who only cares about local issues. Then he goes back to Harrisburg and votes in lockstep with the rest of the RWNJs and nobody seems to care.

[maxrandb]

16. The only reason they do is gerrymandering

Dems hold all "state-wide" offices in those states.

Koch and other billionaires worked for decades to surgically gerrymander every place where the rules allowed them to.

They so ratfucked the states, Retrumplicans could get 48% of a states total vote and still get 65-70% of the states representation.

Thank God Dems came out and gave us Democratic Governors and Secretaries of State in WI, MI and PA or we'd be seriously ducked.

[gulliver]

17. Dems need to start moving to the rural towns.

Now that we're starting to see how effective WFH is, it should be more and more possible for Dems to move out to the sticks. I personally would love to. As long as we're concentrated into big cities and metro areas, we're easy targets for gerrymandering.

[Cal Carpenter]

19. Assholes, like the Koch Brothers et al, must be stopped from pouring billions of dollars

into state election manipulation for decades with anti-union rhetoric, campaigns against small-d democratic ballot proposals (eg redistricting, right to work), and campaign support for the worst of the opportunistic RW power hungry fuckheads running for state legislatures.

Point being, there's nothing easy about this. Before election day happens, years of propaganda, infiltration, think tanks, foundations, and billionaires mean in a lot of states there are no real choices, and there is no real sense of truth.

I've watched the anti-union shit help destroy Michigan my whole life. I've also seen thousands of union workers organize and protest at in Lansing, Detroit, and elsewhere. But it's no match for the literal billions of dollars assholes like the Kochs have spent on destroying any chance of Dem majorities in our states. You'll notice Trump lost ALL of those states this month. We are doing the best we can.

Sorry if I sound feisty, but the "so easily" part of your comment hit me funny given how hard people here are working do exactly what you're suggesting vs what we're up against.

[DeminPennswoods]

20. In 2010, the Rs did an extreme gerry-mander of the PA state house

and to a lesser extent state senate districts. It it extremely hard to pick up seats although Dems did net 11 in 2018 although they lost a few back this go-round.

It will be different in 2022 with a Dem governor and Rs not having the votes to override a veto of whatever map they produce.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. Most people pay little or no attention to who their

state representatives or senators are. That's the real problem.