Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/illinois-house-results

Here is the utterly ridiculous map of Illinois where I live. Voters are 43% R but only get 3 out of 17 congressional seats due to this map. It's just a fact of life.

IL and MD are dem states that gerrymander.

EVERY GOP state gerrymanders.

See the difference?

MD is no longer gerrymandered either. It was in the 2010-2020 cycle, but lawsuits and settlements, which included Hogan, led to a non-gerrymandered map.

Dems need to fight fire with fire. They could easily pick up 10 seats just in CA. There are a dozen between NY, MD, NJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How horrible that Rs are finally playing your game, OP.

Oooooo that’s a BINGO!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/illinois-house-results

Here is the utterly ridiculous map of Illinois where I live. Voters are 43% R but only get 3 out of 17 congressional seats due to this map. It's just a fact of life.

IL and MD are dem states that gerrymander.

EVERY GOP state gerrymanders.

See the difference?

MD is no longer gerrymandered either. It was in the 2010-2020 cycle, but lawsuits and settlements, which included Hogan, led to a non-gerrymandered map.

Dems need to fight fire with fire. They could easily pick up 10 seats just in CA. There are a dozen between NY, MD, NJ.

+100. Except SCOTUS will perform backflips to rule that Texas’ gerrymandering is legal while California’s is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/illinois-house-results

Here is the utterly ridiculous map of Illinois where I live. Voters are 43% R but only get 3 out of 17 congressional seats due to this map. It's just a fact of life.

IL and MD are dem states that gerrymander.

EVERY GOP state gerrymanders.

See the difference?

MD is no longer gerrymandered either. It was in the 2010-2020 cycle, but lawsuits and settlements, which included Hogan, led to a non-gerrymandered map.

Dems need to fight fire with fire. They could easily pick up 10 seats just in CA. There are a dozen between NY, MD, NJ.

That's a nice opinion you have there. Too bad it's just that.

I have never known a democrat to hold back on anything when it comes to winning elections. They break every precedent they can.

You aren't going to pick up 10 seats in California and you know it. You just constantly throw sh** against the wall in hopes it will stick.

[Anonymous]

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.

I thought this was supposed to be the determining factor. Apparently they forgot when they made this map.

Guess Texas is turning blue.

[Anonymous]

This isn't a surprise, people voted for this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/illinois-house-results

Here is the utterly ridiculous map of Illinois where I live. Voters are 43% R but only get 3 out of 17 congressional seats due to this map. It's just a fact of life.

IL and MD are dem states that gerrymander.

EVERY GOP state gerrymanders.

See the difference?

MD is no longer gerrymandered either. It was in the 2010-2020 cycle, but lawsuits and settlements, which included Hogan, led to a non-gerrymandered map.

Dems need to fight fire with fire. They could easily pick up 10 seats just in CA. There are a dozen between NY, MD, NJ.

That's a nice opinion you have there. Too bad it's just that.

I have never known a democrat to hold back on anything when it comes to winning elections. They break every precedent they can.

You aren't going to pick up 10 seats in California and you know it. You just constantly throw sh** against the wall in hopes it will stick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How horrible that Rs are finally playing your game, OP.

Not the OP, but the Dems have generally conceded states to non-partisan redistricting and in fact the NY Governor cost the Dems the House by not gerrymandering. Both CA and NY have said that if Texas does this, both states will gerrymander and the result will be untenable for the GOP, as they have nowhere else they can conjure more seats.

NY can't any time soon according to their state constitution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How horrible that Rs are finally playing your game, OP.

Not the OP, but the Dems have generally conceded states to non-partisan redistricting and in fact the NY Governor cost the Dems the House by not gerrymandering. Both CA and NY have said that if Texas does this, both states will gerrymander and the result will be untenable for the GOP, as they have nowhere else they can conjure more seats.

NY can't any time soon according to their state constitution.

dems have 2/3 of both houses in NY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How horrible that Rs are finally playing your game, OP.

? Republicans have been gerrymandering since forever. Try to keep up with reality.

The mean Republican-controlled chamber is 13.5 percentage points more Republican than its state’s 2020 electorate, while the mean Democratic chamber is 8.1 points more Democratic than its state’s electorate. Without gerrymandering, you would expect them to reflect each state’s electorate more equally. Mathematical proof that at the state level, Republican gerrymandering is more partisan and extreme than Democratic version, and there really is truth behind the popular idea that Republicans engage in gerrymandering at a much worse level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/illinois-house-results

Here is the utterly ridiculous map of Illinois where I live. Voters are 43% R but only get 3 out of 17 congressional seats due to this map. It's just a fact of life.

IL and MD are dem states that gerrymander.

EVERY GOP state gerrymanders.

See the difference?

MD is no longer gerrymandered either. It was in the 2010-2020 cycle, but lawsuits and settlements, which included Hogan, led to a non-gerrymandered map.

Dems need to fight fire with fire. They could easily pick up 10 seats just in CA. There are a dozen between NY, MD, NJ.

That's a nice opinion you have there. Too bad it's just that.

I have never known a democrat to hold back on anything when it comes to winning elections. They break every precedent they can.

You aren't going to pick up 10 seats in California and you know it. You just constantly throw sh** against the wall in hopes it will stick.

You seem to be fine with the idea that the GOP majority represents 46% of the public in both the House and Senate. Are you familiar with the term "tyranny of the minority" because that is what we have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn't a surprise, people voted for this

No, they didn't.

The GOP has the white house with a plurality vote and doesn't represent the majority in either the House or Senate. It is only because we have the racist rules from the Constitution that protects rural, white voters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I thought this was supposed to be the determining factor. Apparently they forgot when they made this map.

Guess Texas is turning blue.

Texas is getting a LOT of blue state transplants, if the republicans get too cute, it might backfire on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I thought this was supposed to be the determining factor. Apparently they forgot when they made this map.

Guess Texas is turning blue.

Texas is getting a LOT of blue state transplants, if the republicans get too cute, it might backfire on them.

Yes this is the democratic response. Hope and pray Texas only gives the Republicans another 5 seats. You know the democrats will not respond in kind. We are so f((k. The dems will do nothing again.

Mark this pot Dems will not redraw any district in any state. The Republican will.

[Anonymous]

I cannot wait to see this backfire on them. Texans have been seeing their friends, neighbors, employees plucked off the streets by ICE. They just had a flood where the federal response was disastrous. I don’t think they should feel too confident about Texas right now.