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As Biden won the presidency, Republicans cemented their grip on power for the next decade
The Guardian UK ^ | 16 Dec 2020 | Alvin Chang and Sam Levine

Posted on 12/16/2020 1:16:16 AM PST by blueplum

While the world focused on the election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in November, some of the most consequential contests were in state legislative races between candidates many have never heard of.

State lawmakers have the authority to redraw electoral districts in most US states every 10 years. In 2010, Republicans undertook an unprecedented effort – called Project Redmap – to win control of state legislatures across the country and drew congressional and state legislative districts that gave them a significant advantage for the next decade.

...Republicans came out of election night in nearly the best possible position for drawing districts, according to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight, and will have the opportunity to draw 188 congressional seats, 43% of the House of Representatives. Democrats will have a chance to draw at most just 73 seats. Republicans will probably also be able to...

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: redistricting; rnc
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this is a two-page equivalent article and discusses redistricting in several swing states, peppered with occasional plops of British editorial dung
1 posted on 12/16/2020 1:16:16 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

If the Dems win the Senate, add 4 more Senators and pack the Supreme Court all the redistricting in the world won’t help the GOP.


2 posted on 12/16/2020 1:20:44 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: blueplum

So? In a fair election, that might be an advantage. With the in-your-face ballot box stuffing the communists have so far gotten away with doing, they will fill those seats.


3 posted on 12/16/2020 1:21:38 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: blueplum

Stopped reading at the false headline.


4 posted on 12/16/2020 1:21:59 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: blueplum

I was done at the first sentence.

Dems are already preparing to strip those redistricting rights.

“can’t be done!!!”

Yeah, and neither can multiple states conspire at the same time to steal an election in broad daylight.

Nor will a question on a form have more than 2 choices for Gender.

Nor will men marry men..

etc.

Dems are capable of anything. Evil is Ruthless and Determined and Never Stops moving forward unless stopped.

I believe this news is being put up (i see it often) to let republicans not sweat the COUP THAT HAPPEND.

“oh we’ll have the house forever now AFTER this time!!”

Bull ####

Trump now or forget everything else.

Except a hot war.


5 posted on 12/16/2020 1:24:12 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: blueplum

None of that matters in an era of coups by counterfeiting.


6 posted on 12/16/2020 1:30:04 AM PST by Arcadian Empire
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To: blueplum

This is drivel designed to make people keep voting and not start shooting. The GOP wins what the Democrats let them have. It’s like a Happy Meal for the children.

This is Q for Republican mainliners. “Tomorrow tomorrow.”


7 posted on 12/16/2020 1:41:21 AM PST by Luke21 (Elections you say? We get them next election? )
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To: blueplum

Yes. I noticed that in other analyses. Our legislators in the states need to make it priority number one and stay on it to completion. Thanks!


8 posted on 12/16/2020 1:47:20 AM PST by familyop
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To: fieldmarshaldj

>> Stopped reading at the false headline.

Definitely an odd headline for the Guardian, but curious if there’s any merit. It would certainly be an anomaly for The Guardian to issue from a position of neutrality.


9 posted on 12/16/2020 2:03:57 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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hot war

bump


11 posted on 12/16/2020 2:19:24 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Trump won these elections. And you’re trying to tell me that these electors got more votes than Trump did?

BS

81,000,000 people voted for Biden yet we won all these “down card” elections? Explain that Karl Rove.

81 million votes and no coat tails?


12 posted on 12/16/2020 2:29:16 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Texas Fossil

hot war

bump

Yep. Pencil me in...


13 posted on 12/16/2020 2:31:10 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TalBlack

I want no part of it. But there may be no option.


14 posted on 12/16/2020 2:32:27 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The GOP is dead, figuratively and literally, with the suck###es one by one conceding when the president is still fighting and now that traitor McConnell just stuck the fork in trump, 79 million of us are now going independent and dumping the Lying traitorous GOP. The rats have secured a future in stealing the presidency the GOP will do what they do best sit in the back ground and cry


15 posted on 12/16/2020 2:36:38 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The “court” is already packed.
With Two Crime Families. With blood lines back to Italy and Herodian Crucifiers. No colonial roots
(Galileo was only about 400 years ago)


16 posted on 12/16/2020 2:43:15 AM PST by Varsity Flight ("War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: nikos1121

Truck loads of machine printed ballots arrived at 3 AM without outside envelopes and without republican observers present.
The ballots were marked in a perfect circle voting only for Biden/harris and no other downline contests. Those fake ballots were the run through Dominion machines which multiplied each Biden vote by 1.43.
All this took place in coordinated fashion only in those few counties in swing states.
Director Wray of FBI was asleep at the switch.


17 posted on 12/16/2020 2:43:20 AM PST by entropy12 (Those who vote decide nothing, those who count votes decide everything--Joseph Stalin)
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To: blueplum

The do nothing GOP? Is that who we ate talking about?


18 posted on 12/16/2020 2:45:46 AM PST by exnavy
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To: dp0622

Spot on! I also think our rulers have a vested interest in keeping the republican party going because it gives the illusion of representation for the right and it short circuits our political power.


19 posted on 12/16/2020 2:57:02 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Stopped reading at the false headline.

Thank you.

Joe Biden did not win the election. This article is intended to make us believe he did and to throw us a bone to make us feel good about it.

Propaganda at its finest.


20 posted on 12/16/2020 2:59:06 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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