If it weren’t for gerrymandering, republicans would never win another election

[RARI_Godwind]

Still losing

 

[Reflected]

What If Only Democrats Or Only Republicans Had Won Every Redistricting Battle?

The new electoral map from this redistricting cycle largely maintained its previous balance of power. But what if it hadn’t? FiveThirtyEight explores what the national congressional map would look like if only Republicans or only Democrats had won every redistricting fight.

projects.fivethirtyeight.com

Yes, even if the democrats passed their best possible maps, they barely reach majority, and that's more of a dream scenario than anything.

Republicans play the game well and they have the courts, all the way up to the SCOTUS, as evidenced by recent rulings, backing their maps which specifically target the black vote and any other voting blocs they consider a problem and group them to minimize their impact. So the Republicans redistrict black people often, which also plays into schooling and other important things, they present the map, Democrats appeal the map, the lower court can either block or approve, if blocked by luck, Republicans appeal to the SCOTUS, the SCOTUS rules against the block and the map is put into approval moving forward.

It's not even enough for the lower courts to block and the SCOTUS somehow backing it, like in NC, the Republicans will come back with new wording that somehow doesn't negate the constitutional rights of black people and the maps are typically approved even though it clearly sections black people in a way that weakens their vote.


Great intro on the topic:

The Gerrymandering Project – FiveThirtyEight

Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, sports, science, economics and lifestyle.

fivethirtyeight.com

I would say, the two biggest things that need to happen in America, as it's corrupting the process:

1. Election reform
2. Money out of politics

Those two aspects need great attention by the American people before we can get anything serious done. So if your local/federal candidates aren't mentioning that, it's hard to take them serious. There are a host of grassroot groups, some local (Georgia especially) and national that promote candidates that are removed from lobbyist money, and push for that to be a goal nationwide while working for election reform. The most popular members of the house, Rashida, AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Ro Khanna, Katie Porter, etc., are all grassroot legislators, all tough to beat in their districts and all started with small donation fundraising to beat the incumbent ghouls in their areas. Now what would be best, is if we can work on reforming the House, which is much easier, but eventually get these kinds of people in the Senate as well. We really just need to always be getting ghouls out of office and anyone aspiring to become a ghoul, which is typically made obvious by their rhetoric and of course, their public donors.

 

[Cat piss martini]

they know aint nobody fukkin
with them but racist crackas
and c00ns that wanna be white.
they have to cheat.

 

[Roger king]

Thats cap, a good portion of the country is conservative and will always support the republican president, 2008 had a once in a 100 year economic meltdown and bush at 20 percent approval rating and yet mccain still received well above 40 percent of the vote. These folks vote and vote reguarly, as long as culture and hot bootton issues like diversity, lgbtq, inclusion exists republicans will keep exploiting it for the vote.

 

[GPBear]

That’s the thing, they wouldn’t necessarily “lose every election” the whole point is they’d be forced to actually change their policies to attract more voters; which would lead the GOP shifting to the left by campaigning for things like climate control etc.

But because they don’t have to, they’ve remained a stalwart branch of conservativism that is completely out of touch with reality. Ironically, these are the fukkers calling for another constitutional convention.

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Why does Mississippi vote Republican when the state is 80% black, voter oppression must be really bad in Mississippi.

 

[YaThreadFloppedB!]

democrats need some youngblood(40’s) in there, too bad the dnc love gatekeeping . It’s like they have to sit in some committee for 20 years before they get allowed to run

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Also Right-wing c00ns and cacs astroturfing sites like this.