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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts) Wed Nov 8, 2017, 02:38 PM Nov 2017

Gerrymandering of several kinds is the only thing keeping the GOP in power now

Gerrymandering of several kinds is the only thing keeping the GOP in power now
By Tom Toles November 8 at 10:00 AM

The self-correction mechanism of American democracy came out in force Tuesday in repudiating the dark, twisted path President Trump has us traveling down.

But it is an uphill fight against something that never should have happened in the first place. Our democracy isn’t and can’t be a perfect one, and flaws and distortions have been built into our system of government from the beginning. It has always been hoped that these distortions would tend to cancel each other out over time, and they still may.

But in 2016, they acted in concert and we had the blackest of black swan events. It wasn’t entirely accidental.

Let us count the ways.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2017/11/08/gerrymandering-of-several-kinds-is-the-only-thing-keeping-the-gop-in-power-now/

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Gerrymandering of several kinds is the only thing keeping the GOP in power now (Original Post) workinclasszero Nov 2017 OP

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We have to win big in 2018 workinclasszero Nov 2017 #2

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Here is my dream workinclasszero Nov 2017 #5

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Keep on doing what democrats did last night workinclasszero Nov 2017 #7

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NC General Assembly would have flipped back to blue at the next elections octoberlib Nov 2017 #3

Even that is falling apart in VA - changed from 66-34 to about 50-50 (pending recounts) lagomorph777 Nov 2017 #9

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workinclasszero

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2. We have to win big in 2018

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:11 PM

Nov 2017

No doubt about it.

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workinclasszero

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5. Here is my dream

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:21 PM

Nov 2017

Huge bluewave democratic election in 2018.

We take back the House...and...the Senate.

The very next day impeachment proceedings start in the democratic House.

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workinclasszero

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7. Keep on doing what democrats did last night

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:36 PM

Nov 2017

GOTV, women, PoC, LGBQ, all Americans that don't want to live in a GOP fascist theocracy.

It worked to perfection last night!

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octoberlib

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3. NC General Assembly would have flipped back to blue at the next elections

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:13 PM

Nov 2017

if it wasn't for gerrymandering. Dems got more votes, they just didn't get enough of those votes to win.

lagomorph777

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9. Even that is falling apart in VA - changed from 66-34 to about 50-50 (pending recounts)

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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:45 PM

Nov 2017

Somebody here at DU pointed out that Gerrymandering works great until it doesn't. It's based on assumptions about margin that totally blow up when they fail.

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