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Did I miss the hand wringing about Gavin Newsom gerrymandering 6 previously republican districts to likely select democrats in this mid-term.
Does this mean we can have our legally voted on emblem back? You know, the one stolen by our legislators and Tater. I thought THAT was supposed to bring us football nirvana and economic bliss? All I’m seeing is continued
on the field and data centers. Thanks, Tay Tay!
The existing gerrymandering is a terrible deal for everybody. Even if you assume that black people are a monolithic voting block, having districts like Bennie Thompson's means their only say is in the primary, and a challenger has to overcome party politics to beat him, which is easier than it used to be but still pretty damn hard. So they get a representative that is barely beholden to his voters (and it shows). If they were spread out among competitive districts, they would actually be a voting bloc that had influence in several different districts and representatives would have an incentive to court their vote, even if they weren't the core constituency. Noncompetitive districts do not create good politicians. It's why the house has such a higher percentage of crazies. If you look at the dumbest and/or most bat **** crazy senators, they tend to come from non-competitive states. The quality of Mississippi's senators has not gotten better as we have become more red.Jeffries, CBC amplify calls for athletes to boycott SEC over Southern redistricting
Black Democrats on Capitol Hill are amplifying their calls for Black athletes to boycott state universities in the South, saying those schools have done nothing to fight the Republican gerrymanderi…
i'm curious why all these areas who are threatened by gerrymandering don't create articles of secession and secede from those respective states creating new states.Jeffries, CBC amplify calls for athletes to boycott SEC over Southern redistricting
Black Democrats on Capitol Hill are amplifying their calls for Black athletes to boycott state universities in the South, saying those schools have done nothing to fight the Republican gerrymanderi…
It seems to me that some basic universal districting laws would help make it fair. For statewide positions, use some % of population/geography line and be done with it. Scale it down to whatever smaller races make sense. For example:Jeffries, CBC amplify calls for athletes to boycott SEC over Southern redistricting
Black Democrats on Capitol Hill are amplifying their calls for Black athletes to boycott state universities in the South, saying those schools have done nothing to fight the Republican gerrymanderi…
That’s the way it should be but well…we know why it isn’t.
One thing these protesting lemmings are ignorant of it appears:
The funniest thing to me in all of this is the "fairness" argument that some trot out. In what world is carving out districts specifically so you have someone of a certain race elected considered fair? Also, the NAACP is a joke on this one. South Carolina has a black Senator that the NAACP opposes, Florida is about to have a black Governor that the NAACP opposes, and the new Memphis district will replace a white man with a black woman who the NAACP opposes. You can't be more of a joke than that
The fine people of South Madison County, Rankin County and Newton County would definitely not want this.
I was more thinking about just make it consistent and set. You are still worried about getting total control by one party. Given the track record of both parties 2+2 sounds like the least potential for damage
