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Dread Pirate Roberts

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12. Certainly held up as an example of Republican manipulation here.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:37 PM
Jan 2018
How the GOP Rigs Elections

On a quiet, tree-lined street in Racine, Wisconsin, in a neighborhood known as the Danish Village for its Scandinavian ancestry, sits a two-story white house with a large American flag hanging from the porch and a pro-police "We Back the Badge" sign in the yard. It's the home of Republican state Sen. Van Wanggaard, a 65-year-old former cop whose blond hair resembles that of Dennis the Menace.

Two houses to the south, Wanggaard's state Senate district – the 21st – abruptly cuts off to exclude the rest of the largely Democratic neighborhood. This used to be one of the state's most competitive Senate districts, encompassing all of rectangular-shaped Racine County, a 50/50 mix of urban and rural communities in southeast Wisconsin. But since the GOP gained control of the state's government in 2010, and redrew the legislative maps, the district is now shaped like a horseshoe, pulling in the Republican countryside of Racine and Kenosha counties while excluding heavily Democratic areas – except for the block where Wanggaard lives. "It's a prime example of how a party in power chose a district for their guy," says John Lehman, a Democrat who represented the 21st before Wanggaard.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gop-rigs-elections-gerrymandering-voter-id-laws-dark-money-w515664

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I thought WI was heavily gerrymandered.... [View all] Tavarious Jackson Jan 2018 OP
Good God jodymarie aimee Jan 2018 #1
That's what I thought.. Tavarious Jackson Jan 2018 #2
Jesus, if any state deserves to ride that wave jodymarie aimee Jan 2018 #3
Maybe I am wrong than.. Tavarious Jackson Jan 2018 #4
They lost a seat they Bettie Jan 2018 #5
Because gerrymandering isn't perfect mythology Jan 2018 #6
They have no shame. We HAVE to vote these piles of garbage out! lkinwi Jan 2018 #7
It's pretty simple, and ugly rlegro Jan 2018 #8
Wow. Tavarious Jackson Jan 2018 #13
The concept of Gerrymandering is one of diminishing returns, I think. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2018 #9
They are but to win they have to get 3% to above republican voters to take a seat uponit7771 Jan 2018 #10
Recent news maybe? aidbo Jan 2018 #11
Certainly held up as an example of Republican manipulation here. Dread Pirate Roberts Jan 2018 #12
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