Why not just do other methods, like independent groups and bipartisan groups draw the maps?
Proportional representation? If 40% of the state votes for democrats, they get 40% of the seats.
Exactly how it should be done. Gerrymandering is bullshit and this gerrymandering slapfight, which was started by Trump, is retarded and going to end badly
CA had that, they're opting to "suspend" it to gerrymander even harder due to the orange emergency.
Your side already gerrymaxxed, so you're just shouting how dare they fight back.
However, this brings us another question, what if numbers don't match? Utah voted 40% democrat, yet they only have one democrat seat out of four. Would they get one or two seats, if we used proportional representation?
Interesting, the reasoning is pretty sound imo but both sides would be having a hissy fit if they were on the losing side so whatever. Virgina Dems will just have to wait untill the next general election to get the map passed so it really only effects this midterm election, which i think is going to be a slaughter for Republicans anyway even with the new Southern gerrymandering. Perhaps the margins will be close enough that it will cause dem infighting in the house but Trump is so unpopular I doubt it will.
Not necessarily. Victory can ALWAYS be snatched from the jaws of defeat.
Cause politics in this country is cutthroat and divided so 'both sides' want to take every advantage possible if they can get away with it. Obviously. I don't believe in 'bipartisan' cause that usually means a bunch of far left democrats and rinos/GOPe united to fuck over the Republicans. There's also no such thing as 'independent' anymore, things are too polarized. And probably always have been.
White Plurality with the youngest flipping back to over 50% White. Non White TFR is in free fall currently. Hispanic is also a weird category.
They also ceded their popular positions to Trump. It’s funny to hear the old recordings of democrats in the 90s and early 00’s. Then juxtaposing that with their current year + 10 social media posts about Trump being racist for having those positions.
I don't hate them but I do think they're dipshits. They voted themselves into their current situation and now they want to cry about it?
Watching Schumer, Hillary, and Pelosi and all going in unison we have to close the border and stop illegals is great. Remember when Hillary was against gay marriage too? 'Don't ask don't tell' all that. The democrats have no principles, they swing with the wind and entirely flip flop constantly and everyone forgets what they said a few years prior.
To maximize the odds and effects of winning & minimize those of losing, of course. Same reason multiple New England states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, etc.) have had 30-40% of their populations voting Republican but precisely 0 Republican congressmen for decades. Being confident of victory is not a good reason to take it easy or to not try to squeeze as much as you can out of that victory, as Democratic political strategists clearly understood for the longest time and which their Republican counterparts are only barely beginning to catch up on.
Hispanics also tend to get whiter every generation.
I know you're an uneducated, low IQ retard so reading is really hard for you, but as already stated to you multiple times, Ohio and North Carolina and Wisconsin gerrymandered before Illinois did. Hell, Ohio's supreme court ruled the maps unconstitutional and Ohio Republicans kept using the illegal maps anyway.
However, this brings us another question, what if numbers don't match? Utah voted 40% democrat, yet they only have one democrat seat out of four. Would they get one or two seats, if we used proportional representation?
"Whites now make up 50% of newborns, not 48%!"
That's really rich when you say that right after the news broke that VA's Supreme Court found theirs unconstitutional.
