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re: CA Prop 50 projected to pass
Posted on 11/5/25 at 6:55 am to HailToTheChiz
Posted on 11/5/25 at 6:55 am to HailToTheChiz
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The entire system is broken
How is the system broken? Surely each side can play by the very same set of rules, right? Now I hear the dems want to drop the voting age to 16. Is that what you mean by a broken system whereas when the dems get smashed, as they will going forward, they simply change the rules?
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Posted on 11/5/25 at 7:04 am to Luke
They gonna pick up five seats?
Posted on 11/5/25 at 7:05 am to SlowFlowPro
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Lots of Republicans forget, when they are in power, that there are more Democrats in the US
Well, thanks to Biden's incompetence, that is old data. Try to keep up with new trends.
Posted on 11/5/25 at 7:07 am to Timeoday
My question is where is this myth that ramped up gerrymandering started with DEMs?
This was specifically a GOP-led initiative after 2010.
It was a brilliant effort in efficient use of political resources, too
We spoke about it often in that period, in real time, on here. That REDMAP effort after 2010 was brilliant.
The problem is the DEMs have largely caught up
This was specifically a GOP-led initiative after 2010.
It was a brilliant effort in efficient use of political resources, too
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Even if Democrats recruit great candidates, raise gobs of money and run smart campaigns, they face an uphill fight to retake control of the House in this year’s congressional elections, regardless of the political climate in November.
The reason? Republican strategists spent years developing a plan to take advantage of the 2010 census, first by winning state legislatures and then redrawing House districts to tilt the playing field in their favor. Their success was unprecedented.
In states like Ohio, Michigan and North Carolina, Republicans were able to shape congressional maps to pack as many Democratic voters as possible into the fewest House districts. The practice is called gerrymandering, and it left fertile ground elsewhere in each state to spread Republican voters among more districts, increasing the GOP’s chances of winning more seats.
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“I think Democrats made a terrible mistake. They did not put nearly enough attention or resources into legislative races at the state level,” said Matt Bennett, a former aide to President Bill Clinton. “A bunch of these legislatures slipped by very narrow margins, and some of them flipped for the first time since Reconstruction in the South.”
For Republicans, it was a combination of luck and planning. The political winds were in their favor, but they also had been plotting for years to take full advantage of redistricting.
The project was called REDMAP, which stood for Redistricting Majority Project. It called for targeting statehouse races in states that were expected to gain or lose congressional seats following the census. GOP strategists reasoned that redistricting could have a greater impact in these states because there would have to be more changes to district boundaries, said Chris Jankowski, former president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which heads up the party’s national effort to elect candidates to state offices.
Republicans spent more than $30 million through REDMAP to help elect legislative majorities in states like Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Jankowski said.
We spoke about it often in that period, in real time, on here. That REDMAP effort after 2010 was brilliant.
The problem is the DEMs have largely caught up
Posted on 11/5/25 at 7:08 am to Red_and_black
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Well, thanks to Biden's incompetence, that is old data. Try to keep up with new trends.
You using a worst case scenario for DEMs (in terms of candidate and status) to show that Trump slightly won furthers my point, actually.
Thinking that's permanent is silly.
This post was edited on 11/5/25 at 7:09 am
Posted on 11/5/25 at 7:18 am to SlowFlowPro
The Dems have caught up with the fact there just is not much gerry mandering available for them now, especially with SCOTUS cracking down on the race question soon.
The GOP, is they decide to push it, could be looking at 60 - 70 seats additionally.
:lol:
Posted on 11/5/25 at 7:23 am to Luke
quote:all good , nearly every state does it
CA Prop 50 projected to pass
Posted on 11/5/25 at 7:23 am to SlowFlowPro
Always defending the Ds
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