Gerrymandering scheint eine immer schlechtere Wahl für die Republikaner zu sein
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5609709-republican-redistricting-strategy-texas/
Gerrymandering scheint eine immer schlechtere Wahl für die Republikaner zu sein
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5609709-republican-redistricting-strategy-texas/
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So its turning out like everything they do. Scary and aggressive, but not thought out and when the response finally comes they didn’t think it through.
Dear Democrats of America,
This is the part where you take their playbook, page for page. Do not let up, do not falter.
Gerrymander the ever-living fuck out of every single red district that you can. If you don’t, then you will already have failed.
Sincerely,
Any thinking dipshit
Gerrymander works by diluting your strongholds to win share in weaker areas. If there is a blue wave like we had with recent elections, that can overcome small margin majorities Republicans draw up. Democrats have been baited a few times into thinking they could win Texas, but if Texas actually were to rig their maps and there was a blue tsunami, that is a big L Republicans could face.
Do not relent. Headlines are not reality. Even if it might come true, don’t let messages like this lull you back into complacency.
We have to push back against the far right tide with everything we can muster.
Part of me is really hoping that they chop up the area and make more seats and then do such a bad job at governing that those seats end up blue in a few years, if not sooner.
I wouldn’t bank on it not working. Republicans may be wacko but one thing they do know is how to cheat and rig the system.
There is a reason they call it dummymandering.
Trump told Texas Republicans to bend over and they gladly did so.
The Republicans might be able to salvage their party if they immediately impeach, convict, remove Trump from office and work to repair the immense damage they’ve caused – not just to our institutions but to their own reputations and ours as a nation.
They’ve spent far too long acting in bad faith. Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets, and they’ve got a huge bucket to fill. I’m not sure it is even possible.
Gerrymanding is always going to be risky because your voters are not monolithic you can reach a tipping point. If things get bad enough, you have spread your base out and since not everyone is as committed to the cause those can and will either not vote or flip, leading to a potential near total wipe.
While yes, core MAGA is committed, it was not what pushed Trump over the edge in the election. Frustration with the economy and the status quo did. Trumps polices have been detrimental to population at large, and his propaganda can’t keep up with the set back people are feeling.
By rigging districts based upon party, you’ll win some but you’ll lose a bunch too.
Let’s hope this is true
I love how stupid the GOP is sometimes. Sometimes.
Let’s hope.
The big thing about Gerrymandering is it it has diminishing returns and becomes more risky the further you go in.
Republicans going all-in on this may be their own undoing. Otherwise safe ratios and seats could now be in play and purple districts risk being unwinnable.
It really all depends on how disenchanted Republicans are this time around. Their base hasn’t backed off in congressional races since 2008.
Here’s hoping enough Americans are anti-pedo enough to make midterms and the following general a monumental win.
From your mouth to God’s ear.
To add strength in one area you have to take away strength from another area. With the democrats gaining, it’s possible to lose both areas.
Go ahead and gerrymander. Once California figures out it works better for the left will get even more aggressive.
The GOP can piss off with any whining after ‘28.
„Please proceed, Governor.“
https://youtube.com/shorts/uTlEA5IUiT8?si=1wTX9Wl0S5fo1jCR
I can hear that blue train coming.
When you don’t play your cards right and just act on impulsive and egotistical terms…This is what happens.
Of course it was a bad idea to try to go harder. The red states have mostly been gerrymandered to hell and back already. While most blue states are not. It was the only way they were able to get a majority for the past 20 years.
Now they are trying to increase the pressure with a maxed out tool and dems are done doing the „they go low, we go high“ bullshit. Results = increased losses for gop.
Do I hate what this means for democracy yes, do i realize we will loose everything if we dont bend a little 100%. Time to take the moral high ground gloves off.
Dummymandering would be great in Texas in 2026
Gerrymandering is all well and good but you can only stretch each population so far; It has a great amount of potential to backfire in the case of a big Blue/Red wave.
Gerrymandering only really „works“ when the country has no unifying direction and people are kept evenly split with wedge issues.
Just get rid of the electoral college. The very first time a
President lost the popular vote and still became president should have been the last time.
I’m having this crazy thought that here in Missouri, their efforts to gerrymander Emanuel Cleaver out of office will backfire.
They are splitting Jackson County, which is basically the majority of Kansas City, Missouri and a few suburbs, in half and adding those folks, who traditionally voted heavily democratic, to the red districts to the north and south of Kansas City.
I think voter turnout in 2026 is going to be heavy, and democrats are motivated. I would find it hillarious if adding those 300k to 400k blue district voters to each of those two congressional districts backfired and the GOP lost two seats to gain one.
It’s a longshot, I know. But I also have little faith in the intellect of whoever is behind drawing these new maps and wonder just how good they are at using demographics to predict the future.
Gerrymandering works to a point, however after a few rounds of gerrymandering and regerrymandering youve stretched your margins across each district so thin that it all flips suddenly if voter apathy decreases.
Gerrymandering elections down to a a narrow set of competitive seats is manufactured consent in action!
But we’ve been told for decades how solidly red the vast swaths of empty land in the midwest votes, i’d imagine that translates to automatic election victory….
BREAKING:
Pure evil is wildly unpopular.
More for you at 5:00
Because it represents the last ditch tool under the guise of democracy for them to retain power. After that..
If this keeps up the GOP is going to have to develop policy that people want…
Lol good. Dilute your safe red districts right before an angry blue midterm. Hopefully it will do nothing to steal the districts you’re trying to steal but instead it fucks over your safer districts
Decent reporting, with some problems:
>First, the midterm wave didn’t materialize, and then **a decisive win for their party in a presidential contest** produced no downballot benefits for them.
2024 was not a „decisive win“ – in terms of the popular vote, which is what correlates to the House – it was among the smallest margins of victory historically (<1.5%), and not even a majority.
>Plus, districts are huge now, with nearly 900,000 constituents for every House member.
Sloppy. The average is 761,169. Only 18 out of 435 have an estimated 2023 population > 850,000. We definitely should have more districts with fewer constituents per, but that’s beside the point.
Definitely a dangerous game when you have less voters to begin with
In order to turn some blue districts red, Republicans had to remove red voters from their red districts. This may backfire and put some red seats in play for democrats as the republican party takes more and more heat from their terrible policies and voter anger over continually rising costs.
If the ultimate goal is to prevent gerrymandering via some computer-generated, fair method, then people need to also lock down the census gathering practices.
The census is another way to manipulate the vote by not representing the actual population and where people live.
Trump is seeming like a worst and worst bet for the GOP.
Blue states should gerrymander the fuck out of everything at this moment to get more blue seats. Long run we should base districts on math and science to be fair, but in this specific moment, one party has leveraged this for years while the other has tried to play fair, resulting in a situation where one party has maintained alot of power even though they’ve gone fascist. Depowering fascism is the top priority, we can correct methodology long term, getting these fuckers out of power is currently the main goal regardless of means.
Good! It would be amazing if we could stop with the BS and get rid of gerrymandering on BOTH sides! The people should be fairly represented and gerrymandering robs us all of our vote.
Openly rigging elections should be a terrible bet.