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FBaggins

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7. That's a deceptive statistic

Reply to rampartd (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 1, 2025, 12:56 PM

Aug 2025

Trump won the state by comfortably over 20% and it has been decades since a Democrat not named Bel has won statewide. It’s deceptive to imply that we should get a majority of house seats there.

And it’s currently 4-2 with those two being effectively a pro-Democrat gerrymander because there would be almost no other way draw two blue seats in the state. It would be easy to make the state 6-0 red were it not for the voting right act

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That's a deceptive statistic FBaggins Aug 2025 #7

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