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Talk about rigging the system. If the Democrats were as focused as the GOP districts would be a lot less lopsided.
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It was never a secret. In 2010, the conservative political strategist Karl Rove took to the Wall Street Journal and laid out a plan to win majorities in state legislatures across the country.
"He who controls redistricting can control Congress," read the subhead to Rove's column.
The plan, which its architects dubbed REDMAP for Redistricting Majority Project, hinged on the fact that states redraw their electoral maps every 10 years according to new Census data. REDMAP targeted states where just a few statehouse seats could shift the balance to Republican control in the crucial Census year of 2010.
That plan worked spectacularly. It's why today Republicans have a majority in nearly two-thirds of the country's state legislative chambers. And it's why in 2012 Democratic statehouse candidates won 51 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania, which voted for Barack Obama in the presidential election, yet those candidates ended up with only 28 percent of the seats in the legislature.
Talk about rigging the system. If the Democrats were as focused as the GOP districts would be a lot less lopsided.
So you agree - the system is rigged.
Elbridge Gerry, the original gerrymanderer was a Democrat in Massachusetts.
However, one thing that Democrats ignore is simple demographics. Look at Michigan. Democrats win the city of Detroit with 90+% of the vote...the same is true for other inner cities.
Republicans win their rural and small town districts with much smaller margins.
Any reasonable drawing of district lines will inherently favor Republicans and unreasonable drawing of district lines (having a district include inner city Detroit and a rural area far outside Detroit looking like a Salamander) will favor Democrats.
Elbridge Gerry, the original gerrymanderer was a Democrat in Massachusetts.
However, one thing that Democrats ignore is simple demographics. Look at Michigan. Democrats win the city of Detroit with 90+% of the vote...the same is true for other inner cities.
Republicans win their rural and small town districts with much smaller margins.
Any reasonable drawing of district lines will inherently favor Republicans and unreasonable drawing of district lines (having a district include inner city Detroit and a rural area far outside Detroit looking like a Salamander) will favor Democrats.
No need to introduce facts to a leftist.....they don't care!
No need to introduce facts to a leftist.....they don't care!
If you didn't read Carl Rove's interview with the WSJ- well then that's your ignorance, not mine. However ignorance seems to be exclusive of Trumps standard bearers.
(Soon to be pall bearers once his election hopes get laid to rest).
Oh and I'm a Buckley Conservative and certainly not aligned with the current crop of RWNJ's. Not sure why some people have an insistence on labels. But hey- if you're gonna label, at least do it right.
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