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To: PermaRag

We never would have won the house without the court gerrymandering New York for us. We should be thankful. They are redoing SC-1 which looks ridiculous. Have you seen the overall map of SC-1? Lol.


8 posted on 01/07/2023 7:15:01 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: napscoordinator
"We never would have won the house without the court gerrymandering New York for us."

No court in any way "gerrymandered" New York in FAVOR of the Republicans. What a court did was to simply (and probably temporarily) disallow a ridiculous hyper-partisan DEMOCRAT gerrymander and drew the lines a little more fairly and in a more non-partisan fashion.

The GOP picked up several New York districts this time around -- and in *most* cases probably will not win them again -- despite the fact that those surprise victories all took place in districts where Democrats still outnumber Republicans: CD-3, CD-4, CD-17, CD-19, CD-22 (FWIW, Trump lost every single one of these).

That's why they were surprises, and is also why those outcomes are unlikely to be replicated even if the Democrats don't implement another gerrymander for 2024.

11 posted on 01/07/2023 7:30:32 AM PST by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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To: napscoordinator
I just did. The "U" shaped current district actually looks less ridiculous than the "Y" shaped former district which elected a Democrat.

Methinks that is the real problem here.

25 posted on 01/07/2023 8:38:41 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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