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Showing Original Post only (View all)This is infuriating. [View all]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/04/1398938/-GOP-proud-of-Dark-Money-RedMap-election-rigging-firewall-that-gained-unearned-legislative-seatsI can't do justice to the story with excerpts of excerpts, please go and read the story about how badly Republican gerrymandering has screwed over the House of Representatives. Here in my home state, according to the included graphic from Mother Jones, it took 2.5 Dem voters to elect a Dem to the house for every Republican voter to elect a Republican to the House. It's no wonder John Boehner has held onto his seat easily every time anyone has bothered to challenge him, when the district has been so packed with Republicans.
Go, read it, and remember why it is vitally important to gain control of the offices that control redistricting, why those are every bit as important or more than actually winning the White House.
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It is frustrating when main focus is on the Federal lvl, when the LOCAL govs control our 1 vote.
Sunlei
Jul 2015
#1
I don't know that they have much choice. Most of them probably can't afford to go rural.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#75
agree , we need the Federal Gov. to makes laws to ban gerrymandering or even better
Sunlei
Jul 2015
#32
We focus so much on other ways in which Republicans disenfranchise Democratic voters, but
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#30
They think long term. They've been on this tack since the 90s and before that they built up their
freshwest
Jul 2015
#14
And thanks for posting this. Hope - something more precious than gold. Or at least to many of us.
jwirr
Jul 2015
#25
Happy Independence Day Erich. You are completely right about this article. I think, given what is
jwirr
Jul 2015
#24
I know - I am going to take the day just to be with family and try to enjoy that.
jwirr
Jul 2015
#29
The Arizona decision is meaningless in Texas but the earlier opinion on Alabama was helpful
Gothmog
Jul 2015
#35
If districts had to be regular shapes, continuous, and equal in population shenanigans
TheKentuckian
Jul 2015
#36
It is infuriating .... the power of redistricting is particularly horrible in MI
etherealtruth
Jul 2015
#41
I know this is nothing new to many, but I hadn't realized until now just how formalized
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#46
Yeah, gerrymandering is a horrible way for parties in power to stack the deck
lovemydog
Jul 2015
#47
I've been saying this for 10+ years now. Take your state legislature races seriously because this is
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#74
Democrats tend to try to motivate voters with positive messages, while Republicans use fear or hate.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#77