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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello Dems?  Anybody here?  Redistricting in MD happens in 2020.  Please vote anybody but Hogan![/quote]

Gerrymandering is bad whether we do it or the republicans.  Plus the Court may put some limits on it soon.[/quote]

Strange how there wasn't much public outcry when the Democrats horribly abused gerrymandering and redistricted in 2011 specifically to oust Roscoe Bartlett.  They chopped his district up and diluted it dividing his supporters into three new districts and then aligned them with strongly Democratic holdings specifically to dilute his vote.  Prior to this, he represented a strongly Conservative constituency that lost its voice in MD.

From 2003-2013 the district maps looked like this:
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Maryland_%282003%E2%80%932013%29.tiff/lossless-page1-400px-United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Maryland_%282003%E2%80%932013%29.tiff.png[/img]

In 2011, they gerrymandered the districts like this so that Roscoe Bartlett's District 6 (the blue-gray district including all of Western MD and across the top) was divided.  Western MD was paired with northern Montgomery County and the North Central part of the state was divided and pushed into Districts 8 and 1 to dilute the Republican western and northern MD voters into three different districts.  This was expressly to break up Roscoe Bartlett's power base.  For 20 years from 1993-2013, Roscoe Bartlett had held that district, very dominantly.
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Maryland%2C_since_2013.tif/lossless-page1-400px-United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Maryland%2C_since_2013.tif.png[/img]

Democrats were very supportive of Gerrymandering when it was in their favor, but now are very against it when it could work against them.[/quote]

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