Reply to Is there an Independent running for MD Gov this year?

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Is there an Independent running for MD Gov this year?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The main problem with voting for Hogan is the redistributing. [/quote]
Redistricting? So the concern is Republican gerrymandering? I think Democrats have done that in Maryland quite a bit. (I am a Democrat.)[/quote]

Yeah, MD is heavily gerrymandered in the Dems favor.  I guess reversing that would be bad because it would help Republicans in congress, but I'd rather see less gerrymandering all together and I don't think two wrongs make a right.  Non-partisan redistricting would be the best in my mind.[/quote]

Sadly, Republicans are going to gerrymander every state they can.  If Democrats don’t follow suit then Republicans get another decade of control even though they get fewer votes.[/quote]

Democrats are well positioned to take some additional governorships which should help balance things out.  A desire to gerrymandered just seems like an odd reason to vote for Jealous, especially since there is only so much Hogan can do with the Democrats holding the legislature.[/quote]

This is the kind of thing Democrat’s have to contend with.  They e never done anything close to it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/07/19/gerrymandering-republicans-redmap[/quote]

I agree that this is despicable, but if you think that the Democrats have never done anything close to it, you are blinded by your allegiance to party.

From 1992 to 2012, Roscoe Bartlett had served the conservative Western MD region winning in 1992 by 54% and from 1994-2010 by at least 56% of the vote.  In 2012, among many other significant changes the Democratic party gerrymandered MD dividing Bartlett's conservative base into three different new "districts" and effectively gerrymandering him out of office.  He won only 38% of the vote in 2012 and was defeated.
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/how-maryland-democrats-pulled-off-their-aggressive-gerrymander/?utm_term=.06e16b28d7b5[/url]

The Democratic party has truly gerrymandered the state so much that the Conservative western wing of the state can no longer get a US Congressman that represents their interests,  Instead they are sliced up so that they end up with three liberal Democrats representing them.  They have lost their own voice in Congress.[/quote]

Unfortunately, REDMAP was a nationwide gerrymander.  As I said, Democrats have never done anything like that.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics