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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Mon Feb 10, 2014, 05:28 PM Feb 2014

If People Are Waking Up The GOP Would Have Lost Congress By Now. Few Signs They Really Are.

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If People Are Waking Up The GOP Would Have Lost Congress By Now. Few Signs They Really Are. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2014 OP

"People" aren't in the Republican districts...Republicans are..... brooklynite Feb 2014 #1

Gerrymandering is a wonderful thing. jeff47 Feb 2014 #2

brooklynite

(94,520 posts)

1. "People" aren't in the Republican districts...Republicans are.....

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 05:34 PM

Feb 2014

Seriously, the fact that we believe something (even "common sense" things) doesn't mean that everyone else does. There's 40-45% of the population who seriously believe in the Tea Party mantra, and they've been concentrated into safe Republican districts until at least 2012.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)

2. Gerrymandering is a wonderful thing.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 05:56 PM

Feb 2014

You set up one 90% Democratic district and five 60% Republican districts.

Now you lose the popular vote, but you still keep the statehouse.

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