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1 posted on 06/19/2017 5:08:03 PM PDT by SMGFan
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Ping


2 posted on 06/19/2017 5:08:52 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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The democrats gerrymand here just as much. Whenever they have been in power when redistricting is slated for review they do the exact same thing and we end up with weird lines favoring them.


3 posted on 06/19/2017 5:11:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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That’s how redistricting has always worked. You can make a case against it, but to get away from it you’d have to have some sort of bipartisan commission or goobermint employees draw the lines, and then they’d always favor Dems and the Pubsters would wail in public but bend over in reality like always. At least this way is fair, so to speak. Whoever gets elected gets to do the gerrymandering. At least the case can be made that it’s the voters will being honored. Which means this is yet another plot by leftists to defy and disenfranchise the electorate, as usual.


4 posted on 06/19/2017 5:17:50 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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What business is it of the courts to tell legislatures what to do with their enumerated powers? These courts are begging people to ignore them.


5 posted on 06/19/2017 5:22:03 PM PDT by major-pelham
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Maryland and Illinois look well gerrymandered.


6 posted on 06/19/2017 5:25:17 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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Gerrymandering by both parties is pure corruption. Voting districts and postal zip codes should be identical.


10 posted on 06/19/2017 5:51:36 PM PDT by lurk
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Most major cities play games with the city boundary to cement in democrat rule. Republicans should make the case if they lose for congressional districts then the same concept should apply to city lines.


14 posted on 06/19/2017 6:07:02 PM PDT by csivils
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They are trying to screw us in 2020...new census, another chance to redistrict...


15 posted on 06/19/2017 6:09:27 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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The GOP should chlenge the gerrymandering in Blue states.


16 posted on 06/19/2017 6:34:37 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Hil-arious!

Democrats STARTED this process (in New Jersey, if memory serves) and in the years it doesn’t go their way, they whine and scream and cry and...take it to court!

Same old, same old.


17 posted on 06/19/2017 6:42:25 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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This particular case is for a Repub example, but the rats, specially minority rats, benefit from gerrymandering more than the pubs do. If they can no longer make octopus shaped minority majority districts, the law of unintended consequences will strike again.


18 posted on 06/19/2017 7:44:55 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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They should look at how the lines are drawn in NYC!


20 posted on 06/19/2017 8:34:09 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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How many Blacks would there be in Congress if it weren't for Gerrymandering?

The Democrats need to be careful for what they wish for.

21 posted on 06/19/2017 8:51:37 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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How come Wisconsin’d districts get tossed, but the suit against Maryland’s most partisan gerrymander in the nation (look especially at Md-3 and Md-2) got thrown out?


22 posted on 06/19/2017 9:12:58 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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