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padfun

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13. On the contrary

Reply to Exilednight (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 5, 2016, 07:46 AM

Aug 2016

Gerrymandering's weakness is that a large voter margin can overcome it. Since they put all Dems in one group and then make the others slightly favor Repubs, this is the chance to break it. We need to take a few more districts and now it the time. I don't think we get as big a chance as have now, not for another decade.

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