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LetMyPeopleVote

(154,040 posts) Wed Jan 4, 2023, 02:22 PM Jan 2023

Texas gerrymandering gave the GOP its narrow "majority"

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Texas gerrymandering gave the GOP its narrow "majority" (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2023 OP

Not only Texas. calguy Jan 2023 #1

Add Ohio to the gerrymandered states responsible for the current chaos. No Vested Interest Jan 2023 #2

And Florida, especially egregious since markodochartaigh Jan 2023 #4

"Gerrymandering is cheating" is what Mrs. Haygood taught. czarjak Jan 2023 #3

calguy

(5,754 posts)

1. Not only Texas.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2023, 02:24 PM

Jan 2023

Ron DeStupid gerrymandered three Democratic seats in Florida.

No Vested Interest

(5,193 posts)

2. Add Ohio to the gerrymandered states responsible for the current chaos.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2023, 04:39 PM

Jan 2023

markodochartaigh

(1,978 posts)

4. And Florida, especially egregious since

Reply to No Vested Interest (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 5, 2023, 11:34 AM

Jan 2023

DeSantis seized control of the redistricting process. Also the fact that the attempt by New York to balance the scales and do a Democratic gerrymander was slapped down by Republican judges. And don't give me any of that crap about "if Democrats hadn't tried such a big gerrymander it wouldn't have been slapped down". No matter what the Democrats has done these extreme reich-wing judges would have torpedoed it.

czarjak

(12,388 posts)

3. "Gerrymandering is cheating" is what Mrs. Haygood taught.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2023, 10:38 PM

Jan 2023

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