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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Stephen. I loathed and detested what happened in my state. For one thing, my brilliant and kind Rep, Carolyn Maloney, was forced to run against Jerry Nadler. I believe she lost because The NY Times endorsed him. She was chair of Oversight, now under the idiot thumb of James "The Moron" Comer. My current Rep is the brilliant Dan Goldman, but I hope the maps are untucked sufficiently for us to win back our majority. No more Santoses, no more Stefaniks, no more Molinaros. Please.

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Revenant's avatar

Would a "Festival of Gerrymandering" look anything like a "Carnival of Snackery"? Would it a least be entertaining?

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wavicles's avatar

"... immediately engage in what he called “a festival of gerrymandering,” which is probably not as much fun as it sounds."

Except for Gerry, he'd prolly like it.

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notanncoulter's avatar

I call "pious chumps" as my new band name.

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Lefty Proud's avatar

"New York should’ve proven a firewall against a potential Red Wave but instead provided the key Republican upsets — hello, George Santos!" Mike Lawler, also too.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

That's for sure. We've been bringing wet noodles to a knife fight for 40 years...

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Or, hear me out here, one representative for every eligible voter. Sure, it might get crowded in D.C., but it's totally worth it.

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marxalot's avatar

A fine anarchist proposal! Indeed, why bother with a representative? Cut out the middleman: just send everyone to DC and then we all get onto the committees and have the meetings.

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Skunk Formerly Known As Stoner's avatar

Districts should be drawn by algorithms. Algorithms to do this in an unbiased fashion exist, and a requirement to use one should be part of new voters’ rights legislation. Legislators should have zero input on choosing who votes for them.

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Tina Mouse's avatar

And we should increase the number of Reps in the House.

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Just_Jim's avatar

Yes. They should pass the 3 representatives for Wyoming law. (Wyoming or whichever state is at the time the least populated gets 3 representatives, every other state's number of representatives is based on that. As an example if your state has 3 times Wyoming's population it gets 9 representatives, if the number from the calculation is x.49 or lower it gets x, if it is x.51 or higher it gets x+1. This would result in approximately 1720 representatives, but would be worth it so that the smallest population states aren't quite so over-represented.

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SethTriggs's avatar

I say go for it. That whole Cuomo nexus of fuckery was really, really weird.

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belfryo's avatar

" I’m glad to see Democrats not acting so pious that they look like chumps."

yeah man

this exactly...Its not 'being like them' to simply hold your ground...

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Georgiaburning's avatar

It would help a lot of things if the size of the House was increased, it’s been set at 435 since 1929. This doesn’t take a constitutional amendment. A 600 seat House would be more appropriate.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

1115 for me.

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Just_Jim's avatar

About 1720, give the smallest state 3 reps, and calculate the others based on that.

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DJ Teetop's avatar

Or, hear me out, if the House was eliminated

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Tina Mouse's avatar

So we just have the Senate?

Yikes.

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belfryo's avatar

I'd say eliminate the Senate...the 2 reps per state regardless of the population size of is the real problem..The house at least is already more representative, population wise

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Just_Jim's avatar

But that would take a constitutional amendment, pretty much undoable.

At least it's easier than trying to vary the number of Senators by population which is an unamendable part of the constitution.

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belfryo's avatar

Yep. Basically my argument is that IF you could only either get rid of the house or the Senate, the senate would be the one for the chopping block

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tempusfugit's avatar

The Senate is nearly as bad as *spits* the electoral college, and nearly as much of a craven giveaway to rich white racist slavers--then and NOW.

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belfryo's avatar

good point...I hadn't thought of that analogy before...How the EC and the Senate use the same disproportionate representation...

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bobbert's avatar

Increasing the House would reduce the EC bias, also too

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belfryo's avatar

yep!

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Anzu's avatar

If every legislative district had a city as a core and then built out the population around that city, maps in every state would look fairly different.

Instead we got fuckery like this in my city, whereupon the Republicans sliced us in half: https://www.ajc.com/politics/a-college-town-divided-liberal-athens-split-into-republican-districts/GTOW7DDFWZFYDBJYZ2QBT7INVQ/

So instead of a blue majority district and a red super majority district, we have two red slight majority districts, and the voices of our city are completely drowned out at the state level.

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Tina Mouse's avatar

Well that sucks.

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TakingAmes's avatar

Feature, not bug.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

THIS needs to be the policy of all fifty freakin' states.

It simply stands to reason that partisan calligraphers are going to contrive voting districts to THEIR benefit. You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to suss out that indomitable fact.

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belfryo's avatar

you know, THIS would be a good use of AI...

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Tina Mouse's avatar

Nah, just plain old easy-audit GPS and statistics.

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belfryo's avatar

true that!

What's lacking is the WILL, not the methodology

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Parakeetist's avatar

This is good. Let's do this to every state in the Union.

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Spotts1701's avatar

No, CNN, Hunter Biden is not "flouting" a Congressional Subpoena. He's calling James Comer, Jim Jordan and the rest of them out for their hypocrisy of refusing to let him testify in open session.

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M'Hael's avatar

"North Carolina Republicans passed an absurdly gerrymandered map back in October that’s likely to eliminate at least half of the Democrats representing the state in the US House. This is thanks to the newly installed far-right state supreme court that functions as an extension of the Republican state Legislature."

And also that fucking deceitful turncoat Trish Cotham, too. Bitch got her money and fucking RAN the second she had the flimsiest bullshit excuse to do so.

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tempusfugit's avatar

The things which need to be done to that bint cannot be detailed in this forum.

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