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WVGal1963

(214 posts)
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 08:17 PM Nov 2022

Dang....I am so tired of these reports of "re-districting"....

COME ON!! This is full on…..no doubt….ABSOLUTE gerrymandering!!!! ALL OVER the United States as a result of Republican held legislatures, sooooo many states have been gerrymandered.

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Dang....I am so tired of these reports of "re-districting".... (Original Post) WVGal1963 Nov 2022 OP
Waving from what used to be blue Nashville Docreed2003 Nov 2022 #1
HI! Had it not been for gerrymandering.... WVGal1963 Nov 2022 #2
We don't have the popular vote SickOfTheOnePct Nov 2022 #4
We were able to do something about it here in Michigan, but other states don't appear to catbyte Nov 2022 #3

Docreed2003

(18,714 posts)
1. Waving from what used to be blue Nashville
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 08:29 PM
Nov 2022

A congressional district that was a Dem stronghold in a red state that got carved up by the GOP legislature and no longer exists...it was split surgically four ways so that there could be no blue representation. And the outside media has largely ignored it! No outrage except within this state. It's infuriating

WVGal1963

(214 posts)
2. HI! Had it not been for gerrymandering....
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 08:43 PM
Nov 2022

……we Dems would have SWEPT the county yet again!! This is the most serious problem we face. The popular vote will not MATTER as long as we continue to lose House of Representatives races. Dang. I’m so sick and tired of watching them “win” this way. We ALWAYS have the popular vote. But them? They have (and have had) a “Sharpie” to carve out the districts. Damn them.

And they ATTACK U.S. Census efforts which allow them to do just these things. The U.S. Census gets bashed, and chided, and monies for a a realistic Census have been withheld.

THIS is what happens when you put Republicans in charge.

catbyte

(38,853 posts)
3. We were able to do something about it here in Michigan, but other states don't appear to
Mon Nov 14, 2022, 08:47 PM
Nov 2022

be as fortunate. It seems so wrong that the citizens of a state can't circulate petitions to put an issue on the ballot that they feel strongly about. There's something very un-American about it. The MIGQP threw up every roadblock allowed by law, but the will of the people could not be thwarted. It makes you feel like your vote really does matter.

I hope folks in other states can figure out a way to stop the actual steal.

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