Republican Gerrymandering

[sealybobo]

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.

The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.

Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.

It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.

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Republicans still illegally trying to gerrymander

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Strikes Down State's Congressional Map, Saying It Illegally Benefits GOP | HuffPost

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the state’s congressional map went so far to benefit Republicans that it “clearly, plainly and palpably” violated the state constitution.

So Republicans don't really care about the constitution state or federal.

So how do you feel about Democrat gerrymandered districts? You OK with those?

It’s gone too far. When the majority are suddenly the minority as far as representatives

 

[sealybobo]

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.

The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.

Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.

It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.

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Republicans still illegally trying to gerrymander

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Strikes Down State's Congressional Map, Saying It Illegally Benefits GOP | HuffPost

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the state’s congressional map went so far to benefit Republicans that it “clearly, plainly and palpably” violated the state constitution.

So Republicans don't really care about the constitution state or federal.

So how do you feel about Democrat gerrymandered districts? You OK with those?

NO!​

Republicans wouldn’t allow this. I doubt red state elections are on the up and up

 

[AVG-JOE]

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.

The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.

Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.

It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.

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Right..

That's why Trump lost and hillary is our President

Seriously!!

Your sarcasm is not lost on me... I too figured that the Republican Party and Supply Side Economics were pushing each other out of the history door when George W. & Company drove us to the brink in the summer of '08 but here we go again... borrowing a crap-load of money from our future, giving it to a few individuals and begging them to create jobs that they don't need done with it, but the gullibility of the American Voter continues to frustrate me.

Whatever... I made money the last go 'round and I've got nothing but Time....

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[IsaacNewton]

Pennsylvania GOP leader defies court order on gerrymandering

Pennsylvania GOP won't comply with court order to turn over district data on gerrymandering in PA.

Now we're getting to it. The GOP now is openly ignoring the courts. They've decided they've had enough of the Constitution. They're clearing jail cells for them now.

 

[Papageorgio]

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.

The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.

Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.

It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.

`​

Right..

That's why Trump lost and hillary is our President

Gerrymandering has nothing to do with Presidential elections and did not change any Electoral College vote.

 

[sealybobo]

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.

The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.

Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.

It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.

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Public opinion about partisan gerrymandering is consistently negative. Last fall, voters in four states voted to reduce the role of elected officials in the redistricting process.

A Campaign Legal Center poll from earlier this year found that about two-thirds of likely 2020 voters view gerrymandering unfavorably.

Redistricting Guru's Hard Drives Could Mean Legal, Political Woes For GOP

"Redistricting is like an election in reverse! It's a great event," he said with a smile at a National Conference of State Legislatures event in 2000. "Usually the voters get to pick the politicians. In redistricting, the politicians get to pick the voters!"

A mapmaker and Republican strategist, he saw holes in the democratic system that could be exploited by technology and guile. Hofeller, who died in August 2018, saw a way to turn small vote margins into supermajorities for GOP legislators.

Now a trove of his data has been uncovered that could undo some of the work he spent decades perfecting.

In North Carolina, after Republican successes in the 2010 election, Hofeller helped draw new maps that netted the party 10 of the state's 13 congressional seats, despite the popular vote in that state being nearly even.

After Hofeller's death, his daughter found hard drives and thumb drives holding closeto 100,000 files, according to The New York Times. She turned them over to Common Cause, a voting-rights nonprofit.

The first hint at what they could contain came in a court filing last week.

Census case offers a sliver

An unpublished 2015 report, authored by Hofeller, concluded that adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census would produce data that would help redraw political maps "advantageous to Republican and Non-Hispanic Whites."

Plaintiffs in one of the New York-based lawsuits over the question also say that Hofeller later ghostwrote an early draft of the Trump administration's request for the question. A Justice Department spokesperson called that accusation "false."
The Trump administration has said it wants to add the question to help minority representation, even though Census Bureau research disputes that.

Ohio State law professor Daniel Tokaji says the Hofeller discovery is just another example of how the administration's justification doesn't hold up.

"It was not really, as they claimed, to get better enforcement of the Voting Rights Act so that Latinos could be fairly represented," said Tokaji. "In fact, there was a deliberate plan, and that plan includes the dilution of Latino votes and the enhancement of Republican voting strength."

The question now is, what else is in the newly uncovered files?

The data, as some have theorized, could potentially be useful in other partisan gerrymandering lawsuits that are floating around the country.

Attorneys for Common Cause said in court filings made public Thursday the Hofeller files reveal that Republicans in North Carolina made false statements to a federal court to avoid special elections in 2017.

Legislators repeatedly said districts that had been ruled unconstitutional couldn't be quickly thrown out because work on new ones had not yet begun. The newfound files, however, show that Hofeller had almost completely finished new maps at the time those statements were made.

Kathay Feng, the national redistricting director for Common Cause, wouldn't discuss what else is in the files because of ongoing litigation, but she spoke generally about the dangers of politicians drawing district lines that favor their own party.

"This is an American democracy, and we don't want a situation where, perhaps the best analogy is like Russia, where you have fake choices on the ballot," Feng said. "Where there is no such thing as true democracy, where your vote doesn't matter."

 

[Dreadnaught1968]

It's rather funny that some seem to have problems with Republican gerrymandering, but those same people don't seem to care about Democratic gerrymandering...

 

[AVG-JOE]

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.

The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.

Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.

It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.

`​

Public opinion about partisan gerrymandering is consistently negative. Last fall, voters in four states voted to reduce the role of elected officials in the redistricting process.

Good.

'bout fucking time.

The more people know, eh?

Education, education, education.​

 

[rightwinger]

Will the courts have the balls to end gerrymandering?

I doubt it

 

[AVG-JOE]

It's rather funny that some seem to have problems with Republican gerrymandering, but those same people don't seem to care about Democratic gerrymandering...

That is absolute partisan bullshit and you know it.

I've NEVER met an actual person who favored Gerrymandering for one side only.

Once voters understand what it is, they usually hate it in general.

Everyone who studies the issue without their partisan blinders on understands that both sides have been doing it since it was invented but, as with most things political, the Republicans are not only better at using it, they've perfected to an art.

 

[AVG-JOE]

Will the courts have the balls to end gerrymandering?

I doubt it

Not the court seated presently.

The states changing on their own is the best fix anyway.... I pity the politician that sues to try and prevent a state from changing.

The People are beginning to understand, and I blame The Internet.

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[sealybobo]

Will the courts have the balls to end gerrymandering?

I doubt it

States rights.

 

[Dreadnaught1968]

It's rather funny that some seem to have problems with Republican gerrymandering, but those same people don't seem to care about Democratic gerrymandering...

That is absolute partisan bullshit and you know it.

I've NEVER met an actual person who favored Gerrymandering for one side only.

Once voters understand what it is, they usually hate it in general.

Everyone who studies the issue without their partisan blinders on understands that both sides have been doing it since it was invented but, as with most things political, the Republicans are not only better at using it, they've perfected to an art.

All the bitching about gerrymandering on this board seems geared toward the Republican gerrymandered districts. Unless called out on it, none of the typical left/dems on this board complain about the Democratic gerrymandered districts. THAT was my point. Understand?

 

[AVG-JOE]

Of course I understand, Bro... We're both competent in American English.

I can only speak for myself, but I tend to give more time in my public musings on Gerrymandering to Republican Gerrymandering because they're so much better at it.

Never in the history of Democracy has so few votes yielded so much political power without use of the word "Banana" in front of the word "Republic".

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[sealybobo]

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.

The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.

Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.

It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.

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And the new Supreme Court ruled gerrymandering is ok to them. Now I hope people see how important it was that hillary win and get to appoint progressive judges. And how important it is trump lose 2020. RBG is going to retire.

 

[daveman]

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.

The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.

Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.

It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.

`​

And the new Supreme Court ruled gerrymandering is ok to them. Now I hope people see how important it was that hillary win and get to appoint progressive judges. And how important it is trump lose 2020. RBG is going to retire.

Hillary's running? Or do you think she's just going to get to bypass the election and go straight to the White House -- because "it's her turn!!"?