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1 posted on 08/07/2017 1:52:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No doubt because white Americans are racist.


2 posted on 08/07/2017 1:56:44 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A poor workman blames his tools.


3 posted on 08/07/2017 1:57:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dang Russians.


4 posted on 08/07/2017 1:58:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As if Democrats never used gerrymandering.


5 posted on 08/07/2017 1:58:57 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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Senate hasn’t had such a strong pro-GOP bias since the ratification of direct Senate elections in 1913.

You would never know that based on results.

7 posted on 08/07/2017 1:59:48 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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The bias is strong with this one. Gerrymandering has always been done more skillfully by Democrats than Republicans.


8 posted on 08/07/2017 2:00:26 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The excuses for dem midterm losses keep coming...

and it’s still 2017!!


9 posted on 08/07/2017 2:00:35 PM PDT by Conserv
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Like it or not, "Gerrymandering" is the result of democracy. The Democrats went hard left in 2009 and 2010 and the result was a backlash by the voters that resulted in the GOP sweeping statehouses and governorships, allowing them to re-draw district lines for the next decade. If the Dems had governed as centrists, the sweep never would have happened. The Dems have only themselves to blame.

Now the Dems are trying to get the Supreme Court to rule that district lines that give one party an advantage are unconstitutional. No. Those lines are the result of free and fair elections. Just another example where the Dems lose at the ballot box and then try to get the results overturned in court.
10 posted on 08/07/2017 2:01:32 PM PDT by pstwwl
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This is partly attributable to the nature of House districts: GOP gerrymandering and Democratic voters’ clustering in urban districts has moved the median House seat well to the right of the nation.

B.S.!

More FAKE NEWS!

More propaganda from the Marxist news outlets of this country.
11 posted on 08/07/2017 2:03:07 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Republican gerrymandering? HA! Has this author ever seen Maryland’s gerrymandered congressional district map? It looks like cooked spaghetti tossed onto a plate except the districts are very carefully computer generated to give Dems a 7 to one advantage, far more than the admittedly blue majority.


12 posted on 08/07/2017 2:04:24 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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What he declines to see, or refuses to, is that gerrymandering by the Democrats when they were in power in state legislatures contributed to their own demise.

They created and ‘set aside’ ‘minority districts’ to insure a black representative would be elected from their state, no matter what. What this did in the unintended consequence category of being too clever by half is, rob adjacent districts of democrat voters that they would have had in marginal districts to win.

Then, when the GOP got control of the legislatures, they decided to keep the minority districts intact, thus insuring all the democrats were herded into one bloc and have minimal effect on other districts.........................


13 posted on 08/07/2017 2:05:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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Congressional district gerrymandering has been done by judges, directly or indirectly, for decades, with the express purpose of maximizing representation of minorities.

Ensuring automatic wins for Democrats of course was going to lead to other districts with minimal minorities. What did they think would happen?


15 posted on 08/07/2017 2:07:00 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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That’s what happens when you give Al Green and Maxine Waters the spotlight to stake-out the extreme Left positions on Trump


16 posted on 08/07/2017 2:10:02 PM PDT by PGR88
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The GOP will also be helped for a generation all of the state representatives and state senators they have as a “farm team” for federal and statewide offices. It is similar to what the Democrats had after 1974.


18 posted on 08/07/2017 2:13:00 PM PDT by tellw (ed)
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To: LS; Impy; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy

*ping*


23 posted on 08/07/2017 3:52:51 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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Never underestimate the stupid party’s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory


25 posted on 08/07/2017 4:32:27 PM PDT by wny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Republicans’ potent efforts to gerrymander congressional districts. HAHAHAHAHA


30 posted on 08/07/2017 6:12:18 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (---->VMFA 235 '69 -'72 KMCAS <--- F4 PHANTOM... FLYING BRICK)
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The Senate hasn’t had such a strong pro-GOP bias since the ratification of direct Senate elections in 1913. HAHAHAHA AGAIN


32 posted on 08/07/2017 6:12:57 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (---->VMFA 235 '69 -'72 KMCAS <--- F4 PHANTOM... FLYING BRICK)
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