Why NOT to vote Republican

[iris lilies]

The other six states, one of them mine, only have a single congressional district. Gerrymandering isn't possible. I think gerrymandering is a bipartisan strategy.

Then there is New York, having trouble with lines drawn by the Democrats.

Jane Pauley‘s numbers are not adding up.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/polit...urt-blocks-map

[LDAHL]

That's an interesting statistic! I was under the impression that prior to last weeks elections, only about 30 states were controlled by Republican legislatures and of those, only about 23 also had Republican governors. I wonder how they managed to gerrymander so many?

Things are going better than I thought!

[frugal-one]

On the show they showed how gerrymandering works. It is not something I can explain.

[bae]

That's an interesting statistic! I was under the impression that prior to last weeks elections, only about 30 states were controlled by Republican legislatures and of those, only about 23 also had Republican governors. I wonder how they managed to gerrymander so many?

Washington State certainly engages in gerrymandering, and this is a Democrat-controlled state.

For instance, last time they redistricted here, they gave my US Congresscritter a totally safe district, whereas before he had a "competitive" district. About 30 seconds after that passed, he basically started ignoring his constituents.

Many of the new redistricting proposals in the state "accidentally" disperse and diffuse communities of shared interest. Presumably this isn't simply to make sure they don't have a voice...

[iris lilies]

On the show they showed how gerrymandering works. It is not something I can explain.

You are not alone.

Scientists at MIT (and other major think tanks) address the problem with computational redistricting tools. Members of the Supreme Court famously were not able to wrap their heads around the algorithmic analysis put in front of them in 2017.

In my Democratic controlled city, my neighborhood held its breath every ten years to see if we would be split up among aldermanic wards. We hated being split, and for most decades we were. It was always so weired to have to work with one Alderman for the community garden, and another one for the Park just a block away.

[frugal-one]

You are not alone.

Scientists at MIT (and other major think tanks) address the problem with computational redistricting tools. Members of the Supreme Court famously were not able to wrap their heads around the algorithmic analysis put in front of them in 2017.

In my Democratic controlled city, my neighborhood held its breath every ten years to see if we would be split up among aldermanic wards. We hated being split, and for most decades we were. It was always so weired to have to work with one Alderman for the community garden, and another one for the Park just a block away.

The show explained it well I thought. It had visuals, etc. I would not be able to explain as such.

[catherine]

Here's the segment on CBS Sunday Morning.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-ger...-gotten-worse/

[jp1]

And it’s official. Trump has announced his run for president for an unprecedented in our lifetimes third time. Let the backstabbing and mudslinging begin.

[jp1]

I wonder how many more horrifying stories like this we’ll have to hear thanks to the Republican radicals on the Supreme Court.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...tOi44AynXK7hQ0

[catherine]

My market research brain loves this study about the five types of people who voted of Trump. This study was published in 2017--it would be interesting to see if they repeat it for his 2024 campaign to see if any of those segments shift, or if new ones emerge.

https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publ...s-trump-voters