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Amy!'s avatar

Ummm. Have you looked at the Republicans in the NC Legislature?

Say what you will about NC Republicans, you cannot say that they have a shortage of venal, stupid, greedy, arrogant, and malevolent politicians. Meadows was no outlier (Walker, who before redistricting was my representative (for my sins? or for somebody's, at least), has also retired, and my piece of NC has been awarded to the new Thirteenth (which now looks like a mule lying down, with the Sixth district strapped to its back), so I have to learn not to spontaneously vomit when Ted Budd's name is spoken). I am confident that they will find someone egregiously stupid and maliciously greedy to run in the Eleventh.

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Wookie Monster's avatar

I can understand how it can be hard to find someone to run in a heavily gerrymandered district. Who wants to leave their current job and spend a year pursuing another job that they have almost zero chance of getting? And having to find someone every two years would be eve more difficult.

But I guess that’s one of the goals of gerrymandering: make it so hard for your opponent to beat you that they don’t even bother trying.

Still, you can’t win if you don’t even play, so we should at least try.

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