Posted on 07/31/2025 1:15:39 PM PDT by House Atreides
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) said Democrats would “fight fire with fire” by matching any Republican redistricting effort for House of Representatives seats.
Padilla said, “Why are they doing this in Texas anyway? It must be that’s how desperate they are and the lengths to which they will go to hold on to power. They know that the Midterms are going to be here before we know it. The margin in the House of Representatives is close enough that this could sway the balance of the House of Representatives next year. They’re not trying to run on a record. They’re not trying to win next year’s elections by saying we’re cutting health care. Cutting nutrition assistance programs, giving tax breaks to billionaires. It’s a raw political power grab, and that’s what we’re up against.”
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You want to see obscene redistricting look at CA.
As if they weren’t going to Gerrymander anyway.
Yup. It seems to me they have done as much as possible already.
“As if they weren’t going to Gerrymander anyway.”
How dare the Republicans do what we always do!
If they do, we’ll do what we’re going to do, anyway!
I’m skeered. They will get more seats in California and New York.
LOL...the absolutely WORST gerrymandering insults and violations have been by Democrats the past 30 years. Now they get their panties all bunched up because the Republicans are turning their tactics against them.
They have NO shame, no self-awareness. Or, if they do, they pretend that they are now the victim. How pathetic is that?
Their plan worked well at Pacific Palisades.
And we’ll kick your burrito ass, Killa Padilla. Any state who sends a retarded teenybopper to Washington and props her My Little Pony butt up in Congress should be forced to redistrict their state, ASAP!!!
I hate this state. The Land of Peasant Living.
It sounds like a Maryland Tourism slogan.
The countryside on the east is pretty.
Its ironic hearing dems bitch about redistricting when they imported MILLIONS of illegals into this country for the sole purpose of padding the census stats and gaining 30+ congressional seats..so if they are so outraged fine, how about deport ALL illegals and we can have a fair race for those congressional seats, we got a deal?
the dems will have to risk blending safe districts with republican strongholds and hope the dems low numbers won’t be a factor...
population also drives redistricting... if we can deport enough, it will make a difference
good luck with that!!!
on the Democrat side, “gerrymandering” is cutting the boundaries of a district in which it becomes easier to facilitate voter and electoral fraud
So... nothing will change. Both sides have been doing this for DECADES.
Not sure why everyone is freaking out as if this BS is anything new...
California will have no seats to go with no Republicans on the ballot in their “jungle primary.”
No dont. The California redistricting commission does as good a job as could be expected. None of those crazy shaped districts you see in other states. It’s just that in the big cities have such rat majorities that it’s essentially impossible, unless we had crazy shapes, to end up with GOP districts. Outside the cities republicans are dispersed. First congressional district is a north to south rectangle 300 miles long from the Oregon border to the central Sierra. It’s the rat cheating with “cured ballots” in close districts that is the problem, not the district configuration
But the good news is that existence of the commission prevents the legislature from doing what they’re trying in Texas
| State | Description of Gerrymander | Extra Democratic Seats Gained in Congress |
|---|---|---|
| Illinois | Democrats, holding unified control, redrew the map after losing seats in the 2010 Republican wave. They created convoluted districts connecting urban Democratic strongholds (e.g., the "earmuff" 4th district linking disparate Hispanic areas) and cracking Republican voters across multiple districts, flipping several GOP-held seats. This resulted in a 12D–6R split in 2012 (from 8D–11R in 2010 under the old map). | ~4 (Actual: 12D in 18 seats; fair estimate based on vote share: ~8D) |
| Maryland | Democrats redrew the 6th district as a "broken-winged pterodactyl," extending it from rural western Maryland into Democratic-leaning Montgomery County suburbs to dilute GOP votes and flip a Republican seat. This entrenched a 7D–1R split in an 8-seat state that might otherwise be more competitive. | ~1 (Actual: 7D; fair estimate: ~6D) |
| Rhode Island | Democrats maintained a map that packed Republican voters into uncompetitive districts, ensuring a 2D–0R sweep in a small, Democratic-leaning state despite some GOP support. The efficiency gap exceeded 8%, favoring Democrats consistently. | ~1 (Actual: 2D in 2 seats; fair estimate: ~1D) |
Democratic gerrymandering in the 2010 cycle netted an estimated 5–6 extra seats nationally. Other states like Massachusetts and New Jersey had Democratic-leaning outcomes but were less aggressively manipulated (e.g., via commissions or bipartisan agreement).
| State | Description of Gerrymander | Extra Democratic Seats Gained in Congress |
|---|---|---|
| Illinois | Democrats redrew to eliminate competitive districts, connecting disparate Democratic areas (e.g., the 13th district linking Champaign, Decatur, Springfield, and East St. Louis via narrow corridors). This split counties and precincts to waste Republican votes, yielding a 14D–3R split in 17 seats. | ~2 (Efficiency gap: D+13%; actual: 14D; fair estimate: ~12D) |
| New Mexico | Democrats absorbed Republican-leaning southern areas into Democratic strongholds, cracking conservative voters to aim for a 3D–0R sweep in a purple state. This flipped the 2nd district in 2022, though it stayed competitive. | ~1 (Efficiency gap: D+39%; actual: 3D; fair estimate: ~2D) |
| Oregon | Democrats converted a GOP-leaning district into a Democratic-leaning one by incorporating Portland suburbs, targeting a 5D–1R edge in 6 seats. Actual results were 4D–2R in 2022, but the map tilted Democratic. | ~1 (Efficiency gap: D+17%; intended: 5D; fair estimate: ~4D) |
| Nevada | Democrats used highways and artificial lines to spread Hispanic voters across districts, preventing a minority-majority bloc while creating three safe Democratic seats and one GOP-competitive in 4 total. This reduced competition. | ~1 (Efficiency gap: D+19%; designed for 3D–1R; fair estimate: ~2D–2R) |
| New Jersey | A commission adopted a Democratic-proposed map after deadlock, packing Republicans into fewer seats and creating 10 Biden-won districts out of 12. This led to 9D–3R in 2022. | ~2 (Efficiency gap: D+16%; actual: 9D; fair estimate: ~7D) |
| Massachusetts | Bipartisan but Democratic-led process maintained all-Democratic districts with an efficiency gap favoring Democrats, entrenching 9D–0R in a state with notable GOP support. | ~1 (Efficiency gap: D+16%; actual: 9D; fair estimate: ~8D) |
These gerrymanders contributed to Democrats gaining an estimated 7–10 extra seats nationally in 2022–2024 elections. Notable failed attempts: New York's aggressive map (efficiency gap D+6%, ~2 extra) was court-struck, resulting in a fairer 15D–11R; Maryland's was also invalidated.
haha yea, like CA and NY and IL and MA haven’t been redistricted by the dems to a point where they still find blood from those rocks....
I don’t think so.
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