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lunatica

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14. You can add gerrymandering to your list

Reply to Warpy (Reply #8)

Sat Nov 8, 2014, 01:45 PM

Nov 2014

I'm surprised I haven't heard a word mentioning it on the tv so-called news.

It's the reason that if Democrats want to win they have to go in huge droves to the polls while it takes only an average number of Republicans to win elections.

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