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Rats bitching about re-districting
Bendintheriver
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Redistricting is always interesting to me. Currently you see a lot of dems crying poor mouth when it comes to redistricting. Its them being dishonest and hypocritical.
For those that don't know this, redistricting can win elections by themselves. In reality, redistricting/gerrymandering has decided the outcomes of elections before a vote was ever cast. This is what NY rats were trying to do. It was so egregious and illegal that their own court system threw it out. It would not have only gerrymandered control of NY, it would have effected control of congress at the national level.
Both sides redistrict, but rats push the envelope to its brink. They try to cut out diversity of thought by drawing wild lines divided by race only and by diluting any Republican strongholds by drawing just wild and crazy lines that clearly over step legal and ethical boundaries.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-york-just-cost-democrats-their-big-redistricting-advantage/
New York Just Cost Democrats Their Big Redistricting Advantage
On Wednesday, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the congressional map New York Democrats enacted back in February was a partisan gerrymander that violated the state constitution and tossed it to the curb. The decision was a huge blow to Democrats, who until recently looked like they had gained enough seats nationally in redistricting to almost eliminate the Republican bias in the House of Representatives. But with the invalidation of New York’s map, as well as Florida’s recent passage of a congressional map that heavily favors the GOP,1 the takeaways from the 2021-22 redistricting cycle are no longer so straightforward.
That’s because much of Democrats’ national redistricting advantage rested on their gerrymander in New York. The now-invalidated map included 20 seats with a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean2 of D+5 or bluer and only four seats with a partisan lean of R+5 or redder. It also included two swing seats, but even those had slight Democratic leans (D+3 and D+4).
In other words, all else being equal, we’d have expected Democrats to win 22 of New York’s 26 House seats (85 percent) under the map. But that’s way out of proportion with how New York usually votes; for instance, President Biden got just 61 percent of the vote there in 2020.
For those that don't know this, redistricting can win elections by themselves. In reality, redistricting/gerrymandering has decided the outcomes of elections before a vote was ever cast. This is what NY rats were trying to do. It was so egregious and illegal that their own court system threw it out. It would not have only gerrymandered control of NY, it would have effected control of congress at the national level.
Both sides redistrict, but rats push the envelope to its brink. They try to cut out diversity of thought by drawing wild lines divided by race only and by diluting any Republican strongholds by drawing just wild and crazy lines that clearly over step legal and ethical boundaries.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-york-just-cost-democrats-their-big-redistricting-advantage/
New York Just Cost Democrats Their Big Redistricting Advantage
On Wednesday, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the congressional map New York Democrats enacted back in February was a partisan gerrymander that violated the state constitution and tossed it to the curb. The decision was a huge blow to Democrats, who until recently looked like they had gained enough seats nationally in redistricting to almost eliminate the Republican bias in the House of Representatives. But with the invalidation of New York’s map, as well as Florida’s recent passage of a congressional map that heavily favors the GOP,1 the takeaways from the 2021-22 redistricting cycle are no longer so straightforward.
That’s because much of Democrats’ national redistricting advantage rested on their gerrymander in New York. The now-invalidated map included 20 seats with a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean2 of D+5 or bluer and only four seats with a partisan lean of R+5 or redder. It also included two swing seats, but even those had slight Democratic leans (D+3 and D+4).
In other words, all else being equal, we’d have expected Democrats to win 22 of New York’s 26 House seats (85 percent) under the map. But that’s way out of proportion with how New York usually votes; for instance, President Biden got just 61 percent of the vote there in 2020.
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