Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Uh oh, seems like the MAGAs are going to get their feelings hurt because Democrats are going to at least make an effort to save the country.

HOW DARE THEY DO BACK TO US A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT WE DO!

Show me a single instance of democrats rigging districts that would result in 5 new seats. You can’t.

In California, Republicans make up 40% of the electorate. They have far fewer than 40% of Congressional seats, so CA Dems have gerrymandered for way more than 5 seats.

Texas Congressional delegation is already severely gerrymandered; much worse than California. Texas is trying to go even worse: https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/

I think that gerrymandering is ridiculous, but if Texas is going to disenfranchise voters, I see no reason that California should play nice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bravo to these Democrats! Texas literally redistributed sitting Dems out of their districts. They asked them for their addresses.

The National Dems need a lesson from these feisty Texas leaders. This is how you resist!

Their seats should be vacated. Let normal order punish these people who refuse to let the people's will be done.

This is incumbent politician's will, not the people's will. It's greed, not democracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh oh, seems like the MAGAs are going to get their feelings hurt because Democrats are going to at least make an effort to save the country.

HOW DARE THEY DO BACK TO US A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT WE DO!

Show me a single instance of democrats rigging districts that would result in 5 new seats. You can’t.

In California, Republicans make up 40% of the electorate. They have far fewer than 40% of Congressional seats, so CA Dems have gerrymandered for way more than 5 seats.

Texas Congressional delegation is already severely gerrymandered; much worse than California. Texas is trying to go even worse: https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/

I think that gerrymandering is ridiculous, but if Texas is going to disenfranchise voters, I see no reason that California should play nice.

I think a better approach would be for California to reserve it as a nuclear option.

Basically give Congress an ultimatum to come up with a national standard for eliminating gerrymandering (and make any attempt to revise maps outside of the established process illegal), potentially replacing the current system with multi-member proportional districts and require it be done well in advance of the upcoming midterm, and if Congress dicks around rather than actually fix the problem, then they unveil the new California map which has virtually no Republican districts and fix it in the next Congressional session.

That, and campaign finance needs to be fixed, and we should probably also have ranked-choice voting (but not the stupid jungle-primary version used in Alaska).

[Anonymous]

texas is the most right wing state in the nation, i am surprised any democrats are there seems like this was coming for a long time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:texas is the most right wing state in the nation, i am surprised any democrats are there seems like this was coming for a long time

Actually that’s Oklahoma. And there’s rumors everywhere in Tulsa right now that the state may split into two separate states to add two additional R senators and two additional House seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh oh, seems like the MAGAs are going to get their feelings hurt because Democrats are going to at least make an effort to save the country.

HOW DARE THEY DO BACK TO US A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT WE DO!

Show me a single instance of democrats rigging districts that would result in 5 new seats. You can’t.

In California, Republicans make up 40% of the electorate. They have far fewer than 40% of Congressional seats, so CA Dems have gerrymandered for way more than 5 seats.

Texas Congressional delegation is already severely gerrymandered; much worse than California. Texas is trying to go even worse: https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/

I think that gerrymandering is ridiculous, but if Texas is going to disenfranchise voters, I see no reason that California should play nice.

California disenfranchised its repubs through gerrymandering more than 15 years ago. They never played nice about it. It’s all just politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:texas is the most right wing state in the nation, i am surprised any democrats are there seems like this was coming for a long time

Actually that’s Oklahoma. And there’s rumors everywhere in Tulsa right now that the state may split into two separate states to add two additional R senators and two additional House seats.

"There's rumors everywhere" means this will never happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bravo to these Democrats! Texas literally redistributed sitting Dems out of their districts. They asked them for their addresses.

The National Dems need a lesson from these feisty Texas leaders. This is how you resist!

Their seats should be vacated. Let normal order punish these people who refuse to let the people's will be done.

The people’s will is to not say on live TV that you are disenfranchising them. Really, you should have higher standards.

They're not being disenfranchised. They're being given better treatment than Republicans in California get. But you don't care about that.

Get therapy. Expect more. We have minority rule.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans redistricting hard. When you can't win fairly...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-republicans-unveil-congressional-map-that-could-gift-them-five-seats/ar-AA1JADro?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=7f1c90dc109d475c88285f6d195627e9&ei=10

Republicans have unveiled a new congressional map in Texas that would allow the party to pick up as many as five additional congressional seats, an aggressive maneuver that has already met decisive outcry from Democrats and comes as the GOP tries to stave off losses in next year’s midterm elections.

Republicans already hold 25 of Texas’s 38 congressional seats. But at the urging of Donald Trump, Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, called a special session this month to redraw the state’s congressional districts. After contentious hearings across the state, Republicans unveiled their proposed map on Wednesday.

Had the map been in place for the 2024 election, Trump would have carried 30 of the districts, while Kamala Harris would have carried just eight, according to data from Dave’s Redistricting App, an online tool that allows for analysis of voting districts.

The map unveiled on Wednesday represents the most aggressive effort for Republicans. While analysts said Republicans could target three Democratic seats easily, trying to claim more risked spreading GOP voters too thin.

Um, guys? Don’t we usually redistrict too ?

You can’t always tell by a map what is a ridiculous power grab—usually, but not always. Independent drawing is the best method, but the GOP is much more prone to doing it and sometimes it backfires. Here’s a good article summarizing how blue Texas has gotten and the 2024 race, including how many districts are solidly Republican versus solidly Democrat.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-gerrymandering-and-fair-maps-affected-battle-house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh oh, seems like the MAGAs are going to get their feelings hurt because Democrats are going to at least make an effort to save the country.

HOW DARE THEY DO BACK TO US A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT WE DO!

Show me a single instance of democrats rigging districts that would result in 5 new seats. You can’t.

In California, Republicans make up 40% of the electorate. They have far fewer than 40% of Congressional seats, so CA Dems have gerrymandered for way more than 5 seats.

Texas Congressional delegation is already severely gerrymandered; much worse than California. Texas is trying to go even worse: https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/

I think that gerrymandering is ridiculous, but if Texas is going to disenfranchise voters, I see no reason that California should play nice.

California disenfranchised its repubs through gerrymandering more than 15 years ago. They never played nice about it. It’s all just politics.

Good. They need to disenfranchise the remaining Republicans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:texas is the most right wing state in the nation, i am surprised any democrats are there seems like this was coming for a long time

Actually that’s Oklahoma. And there’s rumors everywhere in Tulsa right now that the state may split into two separate states to add two additional R senators and two additional House seats.

How about each Hawaiian island is its own state?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:texas is the most right wing state in the nation, i am surprised any democrats are there seems like this was coming for a long time

Read the article I posted above. Your statement is false. It’s become more blue than ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:texas is the most right wing state in the nation, i am surprised any democrats are there seems like this was coming for a long time

Actually that’s Oklahoma. And there’s rumors everywhere in Tulsa right now that the state may split into two separate states to add two additional R senators and two additional House seats.

How about each Hawaiian island is its own state?

DC will also take two, thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:texas is the most right wing state in the nation, i am surprised any democrats are there seems like this was coming for a long time

Actually that’s Oklahoma. And there’s rumors everywhere in Tulsa right now that the state may split into two separate states to add two additional R senators and two additional House seats.

Didn't the Supreme Court rule that the eastern half of Oklahoma is Indian country?

[Anonymous]

If the Republicans were more secure in their brand and their record so far, they wouldn’t have to resort to dirty tricks to win again.