Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats

[Anonymous]

Have you seen Illinois, California, and several other states? The democrats gerrymandered the heck out of those states.

Turnabout is fair play; don’t you agree ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen Illinois, California, and several other states? The democrats gerrymandered the heck out of those states.

Turnabout is fair play; don’t you agree ?

Both ILL and CA could be a lot worse for the GOP. But the GOP has squeezed almost every seat it can in the rest of the country, whereas a lot of blue and purple states submitted to independent commissions and computer drawn districts that are relatively fair. If the Dems were to play the same game, the House wouldn't be competitive anymore, and frankly, whoever decided to cap the House at 435 seats complete screws the bigger states with big cities, since their house members represent over a million residents where the red states rural representatives represent under a million, which means in aggregate, both the House and Senate Dems represent about 56% of the population but have minority representation in both houses of the congress. That disparity also tips the Electoral College.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen Illinois, California, and several other states? The democrats gerrymandered the heck out of those states.

Turnabout is fair play; don’t you agree ?

Let do them all and see where we end up.

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised the republicans are doing this. There is a very high chance these new districts backfire on them. These maps are based on the 2024 Trump vote that had lots of Latinos switching to republican for the first time. If that goes back even a little bit, they’ve just created a bunch of new D districts.

[Anonymous]

On the one hand, the democrats fled Texas to end the quorum to prevent this extreme gerrymandering. On the otherhand, the GOP fled congress to protect a pedophile.

But both sides fled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the one hand, the democrats fled Texas to end the quorum to prevent this extreme gerrymandering. On the otherhand, the GOP fled congress to protect a pedophile.

But both sides fled.

And MAGA has a meltdown when MAGA tactics are used on them. Bring it Dems!

[Anonymous]

Both parties gerrymander, but only one party is more likely to want to ban it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both parties gerrymander, but only one party is more likely to want to ban it.

Exactly - It's the Republicans who want to rig elections and steal our votes and representation from us, even as they try to accuse Democrats of doing it.

[Anonymous]

So what's the latest on this ABSOLUTE CRAP about the Texas Democrats coming out of Abbott about "we're going to arrest them" and "they are felons" and "I will strip them of their seats?"

They committed no crimes, much less felonies, and Abbott does not have the power to strip them of their seats. Abbott needs his ass handed to him over those threats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both parties gerrymander, but only one party is more likely to want to ban it.

You have to be able to define what gerymandering is before you can ban it. What geometric shape would a district need to have for it to be considered "gerrymandered"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both parties gerrymander, but only one party is more likely to want to ban it.

You have to be able to define what gerymandering is before you can ban it. What geometric shape would a district need to have for it to be considered "gerrymandered"?

Here’s a few- conveniently turned into a font so you can use it to type with!
https://fontsarena.com/ugly-gerry/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen Illinois, California, and several other states? The democrats gerrymandered the heck out of those states.

Turnabout is fair play; don’t you agree ?

California banned gerrymandering and draws lines with an independent commission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You would think that Democrats could find a state that isn't the most gerrymandered in the nation to flee to in order to protest..... gerrymandering.
LOL!

This is nothing whatsoever fair about the democrat-drawn 13th district; don’t you agree?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You would think that Democrats could find a state that isn't the most gerrymandered in the nation to flee to in order to protest..... gerrymandering.
LOL!

This is nothing whatsoever fair about the democrat-drawn 13th district; don’t you agree?

Illinois could do this if they wanted to.

[Anonymous]