Democrats can’t win the gerrymander war
28 Aug 2025 ~~ By David Daley
Democrats are staring down a
gerrymandering Armageddon, and don’t have a lot of good answers. But if they think this current moment is frightening, just wait until the coming reapportionment apocalypse.
Their current gerrymandering problem threatens their hopes of taking back control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms. Reapportionment could be much worse than that, potentially an existential threat that pushes them into a minority for another decade.
How leading Democrats address these two significant challenges will determine whether they can pry back control of Congress, state legislatures and even the White House. But as
Republican gerrymanders threaten to metastasize uncontrollably across the national map, Democrats don’t seem to fully understand the math or the depth of their difficulties.
Any day now,
Texas will enact a new congressional map that nets as many as five additional GOP seats. This brazen mid-decade power grab will enhance the Republicans’ slender, three-seat majority in the U.S. House — and it won’t stop there. Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Florida will go next, grabbing the GOP perhaps another six seats. Should Republicans decide to play serious hardball, they could remap North Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas and New Hampshire too.
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Democrats are in a hole, and the retaliatory gerrymander of California only gets them a couple of rungs up the ladder. They need a plan that gets them all the way out. Instead of “fighting fire with fire,” and declaring wars that they can’t actually wage for another three years — in the 2028 presidential campaign, that is — they’d be wise to devise such a plan. It has to start with persuading voters in states where the Democratic brand has become toxic to consider them afresh. And it had better start now.
Commentary:
Surprised this comes from Salon....
Democrats are only interested in winning the gerrymander PR war.
t is the same old stand-by for DSA Marxist Democrat Leftists, when the will of the voters is against them: Turn to activist judges, who are more than willing to make findings in Blue states that conservative judges wont do in Red states.
Truth in the matter is that Ultra Blue states are already gerrymandered so 40% GOP voters in state garner less than 20% house seats. Law of diminishing returns is in play.
The article basically says: what the Democrats need is a brilliant plan. It gives no clue as to what the brilliant plan might be, perhaps because they have none.
Democrats have already done what the GOP is doing now.
“Democrats simply control too few states, and they’ve pretty much maxed out the maps in the states where they hold trifecta power.”
