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How Democrats may actually pull off a *major* redistricting upset
https://www.cnn.com ^ | Feb 3 2022 | Chris Cillizza,

Posted on 02/04/2022 12:31:45 PM PST by Beowulf9

Conventional wisdom heading into this year was that Republicans would benefit mightily from the decennial congressional line-drawing process, carving up districts and creating a decidedly friendly national map.

But as states rush to finish their House maps in advance of the rapidly approaching 2022 primary season, a new storyline has emerged: Democrats could well break even or possibly gain an advantage when all of the new lines are finished across the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; redistricting; republicans
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1 posted on 02/04/2022 12:31:45 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

More proof of the Uni-party.


2 posted on 02/04/2022 12:33:38 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: Beowulf9; TexasGurl24

If Dems keep the House this fall, it will likely be the usual story: Republicans playing golf, while Dems play rollerball, in this case with redistricting.


3 posted on 02/04/2022 12:34:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

What the Demoncrats are doing in NY is a travesty, but then, again, the NY Demoncrats are a travesty.. their goal, eliminate representation for the taxpayers…


4 posted on 02/04/2022 12:37:06 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta is now a Dictatorship, there are no more “laws..”)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Utterly useless republicans doing NOTHING as usual is ANYONE actually surprised?? Hey Ronna WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU???


5 posted on 02/04/2022 12:38:02 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Beowulf9
Leftie hopium, and designed to create concernium among naive pubs.

They aren't going to redistrict 40 seats to their advantage.

6 posted on 02/04/2022 12:38:18 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Shady

Disagree- the GOP in NY is a travesty. They have had the “bend over and take it” mentality the past 20 years.


7 posted on 02/04/2022 12:44:07 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Beowulf9

Gerrymandering by democrats is okie dokie. Gerrymandering by republicans is a threat to democracy.


8 posted on 02/04/2022 12:45:02 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Beowulf9

Republicans can’t even gerrymander right.


9 posted on 02/04/2022 12:45:21 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Fido969

Aaaah. Just what I was hoping to see. A fighter, (too bad there are so many losers here).


10 posted on 02/04/2022 12:46:13 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Shady
What the Demoncrats are doing in NY is a travesty...

Where's it different from what the Republicans are doing in Texas and Florida? It's the way the game is played.

11 posted on 02/04/2022 12:50:21 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Useless twit


12 posted on 02/04/2022 12:50:47 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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To: Shady

In Michigan as well. They took a big portion of GOP/Conservative areas and put them with Ann Arbor and Up North and UP areas.


13 posted on 02/04/2022 12:52:38 PM PST by Engedi
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To: Beowulf9

This is how the Demonrats keep control of Congress.


14 posted on 02/04/2022 12:56:05 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (HONK HONK, Clown World! Let the CONVOYS roll!)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Trump was so unpopular in NY that the State Senate went from GOP Control to a Democrat supermajority. If there was just one more Republican state senator, then the 8 GOP Congressional seats could have been preserved. Instead we will lose half of them.


15 posted on 02/04/2022 12:56:53 PM PST by nbenyo
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To: Beowulf9

Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to find new ways to cheat.


16 posted on 02/04/2022 12:57:21 PM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: DoodleDawg

Texas GOP are a bunch of cowards, they are letting Democrats keep 3 times as many seats as NY Democrats are allowing the Republicans.
It is very different.


17 posted on 02/04/2022 1:00:21 PM PST by nbenyo
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Its funny when the GOP redistricts its “fixing elections” when the left manages to “actually pull” it off,its the underdog win of the century lol.


18 posted on 02/04/2022 1:03:01 PM PST by MrRelevant
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To: DoodleDawg

“Where’s it different from what the Republicans are doing in Texas and Florida? It’s the way the game is played.”

What??? In Texas it was all Republicans could do to hold onto the seats they already have in this rapidly purple-ing state, with maybe a chance for ONE pickup in south Texas. Not one damn thing like the “hardball” the Democrats are playing in New York, Illinois, California and several smaller states.

Florida doesn’t even have a plan implemented yet but, according to the Democrat partisans at fivethirtyeight.com the map created by the Republican-controlled Florida Senate “is surprisingly unaggressive”. That’s just one of several maps under consideration but even the best of them (and the “best of them” would get smacked down quickly in court, of course) in no way compare to the Democrat gerrymanders in their big states.

The only 2 states where Republicans even TRIED to push the envelope were Ohio (map has already been “invalidated” in court, and to be replaced by a much more Democrat-friendly map) and North Carolina, which is heading down the same path.


19 posted on 02/04/2022 1:03:24 PM PST by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: Beowulf9

I went over it, it willbcomebout to a 2 to 4 seat HOP gain.


20 posted on 02/04/2022 1:23:42 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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