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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain how Maryland has the most insane freakshow Congressional District maps in probably the entire country? How did they get that way?  How is it legal?   I don't even think Jackson Pollack could come up with patterns like the ones that make up MD Congressional Districts. What is the history behind them?[/quote]

You haven't seen Texas and Ohio, I take it?

Why is gerrmandering bad for the Dems, but perfectly fine for the GOP? We should end ALL gerrymandering, but if the GOP is going to do it, then the Dems should be allowed to as well.[/quote]

Dems gerrymander when they are in power in the states.  They are equal opportunity offenders and frankly MD is not a terrible one.  Current IL proposal by Dems is crazy but Chicago area has been gerrymandered for decades by the Dems. Most metro areas are gerrymandered.[/quote]

One party supports efforts to ban gerrymandering nationwide, the other opposes the effort[/quote]

But this is the issue - dems say they oppose it yet have a freakshow for MD districts.[/quote]
This has been explained to you over and over. Democrats have stopped gerrymandering in a lot of their states - see California for example - but they are not going to stop entirely until there are the same rules against it for everybody else. Which they support.[/quote]

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