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Termin8tor » 16 Jan 2019 12:33 pm » wrote:
Misty » 16 Jan 2019 12:26 pm » wrote:Considering the partisan way that Congressional districts are gerrymandered, 40 seats is a **** tsunami.
****. You don't take into account gerrymandering by your party; California, NY, Illinois, etc.

It was all in Karl Rove's plan jackass.

'Gerrymandering On Steroids': How Republicans Stacked The Nation's Statehouses

It was never a secret.

In 2010, the conservative political strategist Karl Rove took to the Wall Street Journal and laid out a plan to win majorities in state legislatures across the country.

"He who controls redistricting can control Congress," read the subhead to Rove's column.

The plan, which its architects dubbed REDMAP for Redistricting Majority Project, hinged on the fact that states redraw their electoral maps every 10 years according to new Census data.

REDMAP targeted states where just a few statehouse seats could shift the balance to Republican control in the crucial Census year of 2010.

That plan worked spectacularly.

It's why today Republicans have a majority in nearly two-thirds of the country's state legislative chambers.

And it's why in 2012 Democratic statehouse candidates won 51 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania, which voted for Barack Obama in the presidential election, yet those candidates ended up with only 28 percent of the seats in the legislature.

How does one party get 51 % of the vote, and only end up with 28 % of the seats Precious?

Termin8tor » 16 Jan 2019 12:33 pm » wrote:Or the fact that the Pennsylvania court illegally gerrymandered in that state.

No they did ILLEGALLY gerrymander the districts.
They corrected what was a ridiculously partisan gerrymandered map.
And thanks to that I now have a Democratic Congressman.

The GOP appealed the decision to redraw the map to the SCOTUS and the high court rejected their plea.

The old map had districts like this: