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Will be interesting to see the total votes for (D) and ® nationally for Nov 4.
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The “roaring twenties.” Hmmm. We all remember what that led to.
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Since the 1920’s. What happened at the end of the 20’s…hmmmm…I am sure it was called Great but it really wasn’t.
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Yes. Has either party ever held as many seats at the GOP currently holds while losing the generic national vote by such a large margin?
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No mention of gerrymandering??? So these twits will gain seats because bigotry, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia or winning issues for them. Kiss Soc.Sec., Medicare and your retirement plans goodbye.
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Gerrymandering is a big reason…strange it’s not mentioned.
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Welcomes to the GOP/Teatrolls/Plutocrats’ undemocracy utopia, where minority rules.
It’s the biggest reason. And the article does mention “a map that favors Republicans.”
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Well he does mention “a map that favors Republicans.”
It’s a little bit lazy to put it that way, since that’s how most people are talking about the map of Senate races this time around. In that case, the map favors Republicans because we’re 6 years out from a democratic wave election in a presidential election year. All House seats, however, are up for grabs. That map favors Republicans because they made chop suey of our districts.
To my knowledge it has been something of an anomaly. It has probably happened in isolated cases. Just like the presidential election in 2010 had the electoral college and popular vote disagreeing. That was a first too. It is one of the benefits of the whole republic sort of system.
Despite representing fewer people in the population they can win controlling interests in the government. As localities, depending on how drawn, can greatly favor them. Senate races should generally favor more Dems in general, depending on the state. But with turn out being low on off year elections, it shifts GOP.
Really, the GOPs best friend is voter apathy (for their opponents anyway) and the fact that they get to game the system in terms of how districts are drawn. Add to that the fact that people tend to cluster with like minded people and it leads to where we are.
Oh look. Another gloom and doom story from Sahil Kapur.
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This is all a direct result of not voting in 2010 which was a Census year.
Sometimes the Dems are dumbasses
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Yeah, but gerrymandering isn’t specifically stated though.
Not one of those listed made it in to the top 25 in accuracy of predictions in 2012.
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Not sure hat Boehner should necessarily be smiling about this…
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Partly. It’s also the result of too many people getting their news from unreliable sources and, based on that poor information, willingly voting for people who intend to harm them.
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This is why I support a constitutional amendment that would require that no congressional district border have a fractal dimension over 1.2.
TPM is conspiring with the GOP to spread hopeless apathy among dems.
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This is clearly the case. I’ve never seen so much gloom and doom without a whole lot of substance.