New England's six states vote about 40 percent Republican, and have literally zero republican representatives

[martybegan]

OR is just one example.
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WA is another.
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Is that a county map? I don't think those States have that many Congressional districts.

 

[Concerned American]

Yeah, it is. I think the congressional district map might even be more telling. The map of CA alone would probably trigger a pretty long thread.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Those states are not gerrymandered because most are tiny.

Two of them unquestionably are.
ME (11) 9 house seats, 36%GOP vote (2024) 0 GOP seats
CT (7) 5 house seats, 42% GOP vote (2024) 0 GOP seats.

Just another demonstration of how Democrats have ZERO problem with gerrymandering when it benefits them.

 

[citygator]

How is that Democratic? Are the Democrats "Kings of NE"?

All states with zero should automatically add 1 for the opposite party. The Dems will pick up 12 and the Pubs will pick up 7 so a net gain of 5 for Dems. You sir, are a genius!

 

[rightwinger]

Two of them unquestionably are.
ME (11) 9 house seats, 36%GOP vote (2024) 0 GOP seats
CT (7) 5 house seats, 42% GOP vote (2024) 0 GOP seats.

Just another demonstration of how Democrats have ZERO problem with gerrymandering when it benefits them.

I am willing to end it
Are you?

 

[braalian]

Two of them unquestionably are.
ME (11) 9 house seats, 36%GOP vote (2024) 0 GOP seats
CT (7) 5 house seats, 42% GOP vote (2024) 0 GOP seats.

Just another demonstration of how Democrats have ZERO problem with gerrymandering when it benefits them.

Maine has 9 house seats in congress?

Did its population grow by 8 million since the last census? That’s miraculous!

 

[M14 Shooter]

Maine has 9 house seats in congress?

MA..

 

[braalian]

MA..

ME stands for Maine

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

MA..

You fucked up. ME is Maine.

BTW, neither MA or CT is small in terms of population. Compare them to RI which has 2, count 'em 2 representatives which (Democrat) is the same as Wyoming and Alaska together (which are both Republican).

 

[braalian]

It’s kind of funny that posters here at talking about widespread gerrymandering in New England when most of the states there only have 1 or 2 districts.

How you gonna gerrymander that?

 

[g5000]

That couldn't be gerrymandering, could it?

40 percent is way under half.

Duh.

.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It’s kind of funny that posters here at talking about widespread gerrymandering in New England when most of the states there only have 1 or 2 districts.

How you gonna gerrymander that?

Most of them?
Be more specific.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

40 percent is way under half.

Duh.

.

How many Republican seats should they have?

 

[M14 Shooter]

ME stands for Maine

Yes. I know. It was an error.
Do you have a meaningful response to the point made?

 

[M14 Shooter]

You fucked up. ME is Maine.

Yes. I know. It was an error.
Do you have a meaningful response to the point made?

 

[M14 Shooter]

It’s kind of funny that posters here at talking about widespread gerrymandering in New England when most of the states there only have 1 or 2 districts.

This has been addressed. You avoided responding.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yes. I know. It was an error.
Do you have a meaningful response to the point made?

Yeah, you cut it off in the quote, dumbass!

 

[M14 Shooter]

Yeah, you cut it off in the quote, dumbass!

None of that blather remotely addresses the point, dumbass..

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

None of that blather remotely addresses the point, dumbass..

The point was missed entirely by you. I was talking about there is no real gerrymandering in a state with only two districts. If one was actually Republican and the other Democrat, it would true gerrymandering like is seen in states where they allow minority districts to exist.

I bought a home in Florida in the late 90s. My Congresswoman was the infamous Democrat Corrine Brown who held one of the most gerrymandered districts in Florida. My home was in Jacksonville and her district extended to Orlando to encompass all of the predominantly black neighborhoods. After the 2000 census, they adjusted the boundary of her district about a mile further west, and miraculously I was in a district represented by a Republican. A few years later, someone took it to court and had her district declared unconstitutional. Another redistricting plan corrected the obvious gerrymandering of the "black" district and she proceeded to barely win the next election. Her story is particularly great because she lost the Democratic primary after the district was redrawn in 2012, this time without regard to race, and she later went to prison for corruption. The district was then Republican and I believe it has been ever since.

 

[M14 Shooter]

The point was missed entirely by you. I was talking about there is no real gerrymandering in a state with only two districts.

And I brought up 2 New England states, with 9 and 5 districts, which had 0 GOP representatives due to gerrymandering by Democrats.
So, however right you may be about the smaller states with 1-2 house seats, it doesn't negate my point.