15 states have Democratic trifectas

[Takket]

trifecta is Democrats control the governor, state house and state senate

California 9
Colorado 4
Connecticut 0
Delaware 0
Hawaii 0
Illinois 3
Maine 0
Maryland 1
Massachusetts 0
New Jersey 3
New Mexico 0
New York 7
Oregon 1
Rhode Island 0
Washington 2

The number after each state's name is how many rethug reps serve in the House from that state. That's 30 total.

My statement is simple: if texas pulls its bullshit: wipe all 30 of them out. Gerrymander the ever living hell out of each of those states. I don't care if the districts literally go house by house and look like they were drawn by a blind man after 30 beers. WIPE THEM OUT

And when the rethugs are sick of getting a taste of their own medicine, after the election, they can join us for a constitutional amendment to end this shit once and for all.

[maxsolomon]

1. Turning WA into all-Dem districts would twist it into knots.

I don't think it's possible. Too much empty space and no Dem areas to carve out or insert.

The WA 3rd is BARELY blue - just like the Dem that beat out Crazy Joe Kent: Glusenkamp-Perez. Can she hold the home of Patriot Prayer in 2026? Maybe...

Central WA (4th) & Spokane (5th) are blood red - +10 & +5 respectively.

[Sneederbunk]

5. Same with Oregon.

[Tree Lady]

8. I think I live in the only republican area

In the south. It would have to change big time to go dem.

[maxsolomon]

9. Roseburg?

I thought all of SW OR was red.

[Tree Lady]

12. I live in Medford

We have Ashland and Bend is barely more blue than red but our district now is huge and goes all the way to the Columbia River and all of the east. My congressman lives 8 hr drive from me! Just barely over the Idaho border in Oregon and close to Boise. I can drive all the way to San Francisco in less time than he lives from me. How can he represent me?

Some parts of the coast are red but some are blue, your right the southern parts are red but small population.

[maxsolomon]

13. LOL, your Congressman lives in Ontario?

The OR 2nd is massive, but what would you do? Put Bend into the 2nd and move Douglas, Josephine, and Jackson Cos. into the 4th? Would that change anything?

[Tree Lady]

14. Have no idea just seems crazy how

Large the area is, I guess they wanted to put a bunch of rural land together.

[cadoman]

10. it would be a huge gamble to gerrymander a bunch of 51% seats

Don't want to see us do that. I think some folks are getting the impression there is a free turkey leg sitting on the table when it's really more like there are a few bites on the floor. Let's grab those bites, but keep expectations in line w/reality.

The other strategic possibility w/gerrymandering is to dislodge key players. You see them trying to do this with Crockett in TX. They fear her so they are gerrymandering her into a red district so she would have to move to a new district to have a shot at winning again. If it works I think it could propel her to run for Senate or some other office.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. I want anything

That will upset the status quo,

I'm in the NJ-7th. I welcome the opportunity to have Kean Jr gerrymandered out.

He ONLY has his seat because they sacrificed the 7th for the 11th - and now Sherrill (who benefitted from that) is leaving her seat to be the Governor.

Give us back some of the 11th (which overlaps with State District 23) and a Democrat can win in 2026. Put it back to where it was.

[ForgedCrank]

2. That's a

great plan. Let's entice them to do the same in their states. That should end well.

[maxsolomon]

6. They're the ones that have been doing it consistently.

Ohio used to be a purple state. Gerrymandering has put it far out of reach.

[hedda_foil]

3. Illinois is pre-gerrymandered. The entire Southern half of the state is R, yet they have only 3 Congressional seats.

Madigan was a crook, but he was our crook.

[WarGamer]

4. How many DEM seats are in States with a GOP trifecta?

You left out that detail??

FYI the answer is 70

[dsc]

7. I think we would be hard pressed to get very many of those seats

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NY and CA almost certainly could supply some seats but certainly not the full 16. Upstate NY is very GOP and would have to have at least one seat probably 2. CA would also have to have a few seats, I am not familiar enough with them to know how many but the inland empire is quite Republican and also has quite a few people. I can't see a way, given that, that CA would have under 3 seats. MD has to have that one, the entire western half of the state is a GOP stronghold more like WV than MD. I can't imagine that either Oregon or WA being able to that without spoking Seattle and Portland making it all but impossible to elect liberal Democrats.