A Giggles Thread: Jokes, Cartoons, Parody, Satire, Sarcasm & Irony Post #27654 • Liberal Forum

Termin8tor » 16 Jan 2019 1:11 pm » wrote:
Misty » 16 Jan 2019 12:50 pm » wrote:
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 Constitution gives legislatures the power to draw districts, and I don't know why SCOTUS declined to hear the case.
They can only take so many cases, or maybe that squish Roberts caved again.

Or maybe they agreed with the lower court that the districts in PA were gerrymandered in a highly partisan way.
I see that you just ignored the map I showed you, and you also ignored the article that shows that Karl Rove had a whole strategy to gerrymander the districts to benefit the GOP.

Termin8tor » 16 Jan 2019 1:07 pm » wrote:
Misty » 16 Jan 2019 12:50 pm » wrote:
Termin8tor » 16 Jan 2019 12:33 pm » wrote:****. You don't take into account gerrymandering by your party; California, NY, Illinois, etc.
How does one party get 51 % of the vote, and only end up with 28 % of the seats Precious?
WTF? What does one single state have to do with the entire country?
Both parties gerrymander, and I'd estimate it at close to 50:50 in results.

I can't deal with your level of stupid today.

In the past Democrats have routinely gotten more votes than Republicans in the House, yet Republicans have won more seats.

How Democrats Broke the House Map Republicans Drew

Republicans routinely have been over-represented in Congress when you compare their share of the vote to their share of House seats won.

Since 2000, Democrats have only won the House when they won a majority of the vote nationwide, as they did in 2018.

Republicans have been able to do more with less, securing House majorities while winning less than 50 percent of the vote in four elections since 2000. In 2012, Republicans won a House majority even though their candidates won fewer votes than Democratic candidates.

Democrats have faced an uphill battle in the House since a Republican wave in 2010 gave the GOP control over drawing congressional maps in a majority of states.

While Democrats often tallied huge margins in urban districts, many suburban districts have been just out of reach for their candidates.

A Brennan Center analysis of the 2012 election showed that in states where Republicans controlled redistricting, their candidates won 53 percent of the vote and 72 percent of the seats.

That year, Republicans won 48 percent of the vote nationwide while taking 54 percent of House seats.

In 2016, they won 49 percent of the vote and 55 percent of the seats—a 6 percentage-point gap.

Now enough of this **** in this thread.
Get back to the jokes or find you **** in the Peanut Gallery.