#Gerrymandering

Greg Sargent

ThePlumLineGS

Republicans are now openly boasting of their plot to win the House through extreme gerrymanders. This alone should dissuade Biden and Dems from negotiating down the stimulus to secure bipartisanship.

Tomi T Ahonen of the Smile Police

tomiahonen

The key to understanding the political difference between Senate Republicans and House Republicans ie difference between just cruel and totally insane - comes to 'Gerrymandering' and safe HOUSE seats. The

Sir Humphrey

bdquinn

I ran into a few people who found as being a bit extreme the view I hold that gerrymandering is on the authoritarian spectrum. Well, it is authoritarian in its

Galen Druke

galendruke

An important aspect of how members of Congress think about their votes and future electoral prospects this year is that none of them actually know the contours of the districts

Stephen Rooke

srookejd

Rudy: 14th Amendment is violated because voters in different counties were treated differently because of their location (some voters given a chance to cure their ballots and others were not).Cites

Adam Eichen

AdamEichen

Politico obtained a draft of the DNC platform. Some promising sections on democracy, even if I might have some quibbles. One thing that immediately stands out: The platform takes a

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csilverandgold

I am increasingly of the mindset that no good governance reform is more valuable than massively increasing the size of the House of Representatives. So many good things could flow

Stephen Wolf

PoliticsWolf

NEW: The 2020 elections were a disaster for a decade of redistricting, further securing GOP minority rule. GOP is tentatively on track to draw 4-5 times as many congressional districts

Nate McMurray

Nate_McMurray

OPEN LETTER: THE MOST IMPORTANT LAW OF OUR LIFETIME?—THE LAST STAND FOR DEMOCRACYOut of all the priorities before our new government, I’d argue that nothing is more important than House

David Daley

davedaley3

The voter fraud lie is crumbling. But it did not begin with Trump. It is the foundation for the last decade of voter ID bills, voter purges and other suppression

Ari Berman

AriBerman

Republicans will control drawing of 188 House districts this year. Dems will control 74Gerrymandering could easily cost Dems the House in 2022 writes @RonBrownstein This is why they need to

Ken Prendergast

KennyPeepers

I think this is a superficial piece. Let's see a map of Ohio showing blue & red population circles. If there is a column here, it's about gerrymandering & how

Emily Galvin-Almanza

GalvinAlmanza

So, my friend @spiceybinks asked me about prison gerrymandering. Which may seem like a kind of far-off issue...counting people *in prison* as "residents" of a district for the purpose of

Mike Monteiro🌹

monteiro

Alright, let’s talk about this “surprised it wasn’t a landslide” idea: Sweet Jesus, this IS a landslide. It took absolutely EVERYTHING we had. We are beating a system designed to

David Fedman

dfedman

1/ Mass incarceration and gerrymandering are both dire threats to America's democracy, but only today did I realize how intertwined they are. I honestly had no idea that the US

Sneha Rao

SnehaRao994

This seems like a genuine question that many people outside of the US who are unfamiliar with Electoral politics have. #Election2020 #WTF #USIsNotaDemocracy https://twitter.com/BhagwaanUvacha/status/1324735412464594944 For POTUS election p

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