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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Re: Media Bias
Veteran journalist suggesting gerrymandering the senate...
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Media Bias
LOL, it worked for republicans .
chico , you still don't get it. Everything the republicans have done or are doing is going to come back at them ten fold! Stop the phony outrage . https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...olina-michigan https://www.businessinsider.com/part...mocrats-2017-6 The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage. It’s designed to detect cases in which one party may have won, widened or retained its grip on power through political gerrymandering. The analysis found four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones. Among the two dozen most populated states that determine the vast majority of Congress, there were nearly three times as many with Republican-tilted U.S. House districts. Yet the data suggest that even if Democrats had turned out in larger numbers, their chances of substantial legislative gains were limited by gerrymandering. “The outcome was already cooked in, if you will, because of the way the districts were drawn,” said John McGlennon, a longtime professor of government and public policy at the College of William & Mary in Virginia who ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Democrat in the 1980s.
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Re: Media Bias
G1, you can’t gerrymander the senate...the point is this journalist is a moron.
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Re: Media Bias
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As for Gerrymandering the Senate (a fairly impossible thing) we ought to repeal the direct election of senators and move back to the state legislatures appointing them. Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk |
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