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Jack Valentino

(5,252 posts)
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:34 AM Aug 2025

THE ISSUE is NOT gerrymandering, the issue is TRYING TO RIG THE NEXT ELECTION because you are LOSING

you are LOSING (GQP), and trying to gerrymander your way out of it MID-DECADE
which is VERY, VERY RARE! (and against the spirit of the U.S. Constitution!)

THAT ought to be the Democratic message on this issue---
Republicans are trying to CHEAT and RIG the 2026 midterm elections,
by gerry-mandering "a few more seats" in the middle of the fucking decade!!!

Yes, there is gerrymandering in many Democratic states as well as Republican states---
But NOT mid-decade for the sake of trying to prevent mid-term election losses!
(Only 2 Republican states have done that in this century... and no Democratic states)


Democrats are LOSING the messaging war, when the mainstream media
makes them try to defend 'how gerrymandered Illinois is'---

but Illinois played by the 'norms', and never tried to redraw congressional districts
in the middle of the fucking decade---- as opposed to Texas....

If Texas actually does it, then it is fair game for everyone else!







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THE ISSUE is NOT gerrymandering, the issue is TRYING TO RIG THE NEXT ELECTION because you are LOSING (Original Post) Jack Valentino Aug 2025 OP
agreed. too much focus on process, not enough on the emotional outcome nt msongs Aug 2025 #1
"emotional outcome"??? the attempted outcome is to rig the next elections Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #2
talking about gerrymandering is procedure, losing is emotional nt msongs Aug 2025 #4
I thing we need to stop gerrymandering...all parties Melon Aug 2025 #3
May be way past time for At Large Proportional voting JCMach1 Aug 2025 #5

Jack Valentino

(5,252 posts)
2. "emotional outcome"??? the attempted outcome is to rig the next elections
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:27 AM
Aug 2025

when you fear you will lose unless you do that... and thus might be stopped from
sucking the life out of all those people you hate...

(sorry to focus on 'one word' of your response--
and YES, I am getting 'emotional'!!!)


Melon

(1,709 posts)
3. I thing we need to stop gerrymandering...all parties
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:31 AM
Aug 2025

Although the cat is already out of the bag, it’s a difficult defense to say now this time is different…when it’s been done before. Or we do it also but only at the century. Somehow this bs needs to stop entirely.

JCMach1

(29,242 posts)
5. May be way past time for At Large Proportional voting
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 09:38 AM
Aug 2025

Ranked choice of course... For Congress. Might finally be rid of the 2 parties that way and defly finish off Gerrymandering.

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