Posted on 11/07/2025 8:45:00 AM PST by bitt
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If every state was gerrymandered I’ve heard the GOP would come out ahead permanently. Any truth to that?
Would all red states get on board? They usually don’t.
Instead of allowing gerrymandering, I think that those tiny New England states should be forced to consolidate into one decent sized state, thus getting rid of a number of commie dem senators. Maryland and Delaware should be combined and joined with New Jersey or Pennsylvania.
No. Leave Pennsylvania out of this. We’re working on getting it right and don’t need more liberal slobs.
Considering democrats control these states, no such thing is going to happen.
It depends on who does the gerrymandering. The Dim majority states have made it clear that they suppress Republican representation.
This is a good reminder that for the Democrats “the issue is not the issue, the revolution is the issue”.
I really wish all districts were quadrilateral.
Start in the western part of each state and start moving a line east. When it has enclosed sufficient people, call it a district. If you need to fine tune, draw an additional line in the northern part of the state and start moving it south in order to subdivide a quadrilateral into an appropriate number of voters. No nudging. No nuances. It should be mathematical and not *ahem* “fancy”.
Gerrymandering is cheating and it always has been.
The reasoning is that Blue states have already largely maxed out their gerrymandering ability . Red states have a lot of gerrymandering they could do and come out far ahead of Dems (especially if Supreme Court gets rid of black voting districts )
The real question is : are Republican leaders cowards or not
My guess is that most of them are cowards and will allow Dems to walk all over them
I’m a huge Howie Carr fan. Here in Massachusetts, we are only represented by Democrats because the Republicans only offered opponents in two of the nine Congressional Districts. That left seven reps to sail back in, including Pressley and Clark.
On the other hand, four Congressional Districts are indeed Gerrymandered to have large tracts in the City of Boston, giving the Democrat candidate a 70-30 headstart if the race was even opposed.
I think we need to take a look at the State Committee and start by making changes there..
The House needs to be expanded to 1,500 seats. The idea of one person representing 800,000 constituents is becoming more and more ludicrous.
Democrat/Communists don’t like it when Republicans play their games ... political games Democrat/Communists have played for decades.
The political divide is between urban America and suburban/rural America. If we could argue that gerrymandering should be outlawed and replaced with a mathematical method of forming district that minimized the district areas and/or perimeters, then the Dems vote would be concentrated in a relatively small number of urban districts where they would receive 80% to 90% of the vote, while all the remaining district would 55% to 60% Republican.
Yeah. Even if you could magically create GOP state legislatures — RI and VT have a single district.
It is *literally* not possible to create even a toss-up district in Massachusetts. Districts have to be contiguous and roughly equivalent on population — there’s a pinkish squiggle you can draw through the center of the state, but in order to reach district population minimum? You’d have to include too much of the east or too much of Springfield - maybe you could make it a D+3-4 district and *maybe* you could occasionally get a R, but it would be the sort of R most people would just complain about.
Connecticut is nearly as impossible, but you could maybe create a horseshoe around Hartford to create a toss-up district... but again - the only Republican who wins it is the sort everybody here would just endlessly complain about.
But that’s all moot anyway.
Do that and the House definitely becomes blue.
Like it or not - congressional districts are apportioned by state, must be contiguous, and within a state, must be roughly equivalent population-wise within the state allocation.
Maybe the House *should* be expanded, maybe not. Maybe it would be better for representation. I’d say I’m agnostic, but I’m not (I’d hate to think any answer means more people in government!)
But if you expand the House? You’ll get more rats - guaranteed. Even in red states - you’ll just end up with urban areas having more seats.
Absolutely correct.
With today’s technology they don’t need to be artifically limited to 435 members. They could meet remotely and stay home and actually get to know their constituents.
Also repeal the 17th, Right now the Senator’s represent Washington DC to the states, they are not representing the states.
We would have a much better government.
Dems do not control New Hampshire.
We have a GOP Governor, Executive Council, State Senate and State House. we could if we wanted to
Great.
So, your choice with those *2* seats:
Keep both of them as competitive districts, or, maybe you can rejigger so that one leans R but the other will then take on a more D lean.
Perhaps in 2026, discretion is the better part of valor and slice horizontally rather than vertically - play off one seat to increases your chances in the other.
But again, since the population of each district needs to be equal? It’s really hard to carve a “safe” R district.
Best you could do is increase the chances of a 1:1 split.
Right now, both seats are winnable for a Republican.
Yeah. Even if you could magically create GOP state legislatures — RI and VT have a single district.
RI has two seat for now. Likely to lose one in 2030.
The Rhode Island Senate has 34 Dems and 4 Reps. The Rhode Island House has 64 dems and 10 Reps, with one other
Democrats won control of the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1940. In 2024, they won a 64-10-1 majority.
It appears they reduced the number of house membees in 2002 with the reps maintaining 10 reps so slightly increaseing their percentage.
NH could be corrected by cuting the state in half vertically at what ever point would be need to maintain an even balance.
Maine could be fixed by moving Lewiston and Auburn into the first district making the 2nd a lot more conservtive. Not going to happen.
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