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@TheBasedPeer @mattforney Lmao and you’ll notice that the map in Connecticut has literally barely changed since it was drawn up by republicans.

@SmileSmite83 @mattforney The Republican Party hasn’t held any power in Connecticut since the turn of the century you stupid idiot

Can we please stop with the idea that New England is somehow gerrymandered? This is a county-level map of how New England voted in the 2024 election. The majority of counties are blue, including every county in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The "40 percent" of Republicans in most of these states are dispersed to the point where it's impossible to stitch a GOP-leaning district together without resorting to insane gerrymandering scams like the Democrats did in Louisiana, where they carved a black-majority district by shoving two cities together that were 250 miles apart. In many cases, particularly in Massachusetts, the "40 percent" of Republicans are in towns that vote 55/45 or 60/40 Democratic. This is first-past-the-post voting, where getting just one more vote than the other guy wins, and where geographic concentration matters more than the overall vote. The only way to increase Republican representation in New England would be to increase the overall size of the House. Massachusetts has only nine seats, Connecticut has five, Vermont has one, the rest of the states have two. If Massachusetts had, say, 20 or 30 seats, a few of them would be reliably Republican. There are other extenuating issues hobbling Republican representation in New England: - Massachusetts: hostile ballot access laws that were intended to cripple third parties but now cripple Republicans because they can't get enough signatures in many districts to even get on the ballot. This is why the GOP punches above its weight in statewide races (the majority of governors since 1990 have been Republicans); it's easier for them to get on the ballot when the entire state is the electorate. - Connecticut: the two red counties are primarily rural and lack enough population for their own districts. - Vermont: only one House district, so gerrymandering and redistricting aren't factors at all. - New Hampshire: voters here are weird and split their votes more than any other state. Extremely common for them to vote for a Republican governor or state representative and a Democrat for federal races. - Maine: ranked-choice voting has nuked the Republicans in almost every race since 2018. This year, even the most pessimistic BLOO WAVE prognosticators are conceding that Republicans will win Maine's second district due to their candidate being former governor Paul LePage. Stop it. Please stop it. You people need an education on how FPTP works, why it's superior to the gay proportional systems that Europeans use, and why it leads to problems like this.

@KiloJulietBravo @mattforney Can guarantee you that district would not vote Republican down ballot.

@mattforney Oh look. A fairer and compact map for MA

@TheBasedPeer @mattforney The Connecticut map was drawn by republicans.

@mattforney Shut up

@LostFederalist @ChristianHeiens Literally every country in Europe, and Canada has drawn electoral maps with an independent commission and it’s caused no issues, is America just incompetent?

@ChristianHeiens “We should ban gerrymandering” Okay who draws the maps then? “An independent agency will make fair maps” What decides fairness? I can draw plent of squares they will be +0 to either party. Is that fair? Or should I draw squares proportional to the state voting not the geo? Etc

Yeah man, a totally “fair map” for Texas would be to give Democrats HALF of the congressional seats in a state they lost by 13 points. This is why all the talk of a “national gerrymander ban” by Democrats is totally disingenuous. They think “fair maps” means giving Dems 19 seats in Texas and Republicans just 9 in California, which is what the state’s old “independent commission” drew in 2021.

@Seaxisc__ @CuriousMrFox101 @libsoftiktok @GovBillLee It still won’t be a +9 rep district. New England votes republicans less on the down ballot than they do for presidency. That seat you drew in massacres is not gonna vote Republican especially since reps tend to pick MAGA Christian nationalists who aren’t popular up there.

@SmileSmite83 @CuriousMrFox101 @libsoftiktok @GovBillLee That is because of Jared Golden. Now that he is retiring, the disrict is projected to flip Republican.

Kamala won Massachusetts by 25 points Trump won Tennessee by 30 points Tennessee is more red than Massachusetts is blue Yet Republicans have ZERO representation in MA while Democrats get a seat in TN. How is this fair? After the SC ruling yesterday, @GovBillLee should redraw the maps immediately. Let’s go!

@Seaxisc__ @CuriousMrFox101 @libsoftiktok @GovBillLee I’m pretty certain that seat would not vote Republican down ballot. Consider Maine’s second district that voted like +9 trump but still voted a democrat down ballot. That seat wouldn’t have a Republican representative.

@SmileSmite83 @CuriousMrFox101 @libsoftiktok @GovBillLee The map was just to point out that it is possible to draw Republican seats in Massachusetts. A more fairly drawn map would still result in 1 Republican seat.

@Seaxisc__ @CuriousMrFox101 @libsoftiktok @GovBillLee Notice how ugly and gerrymandered that map is. Seats aren’t drawn to be “in line with vote share” if you want that you need to change your voting system to proportional representation.

@CuriousMrFox101 @libsoftiktok @GovBillLee You can draw Republican seats. 3 Seats are possible, which would be inline with Republican vote share.

@rhensn_ @CringePun @JackWDart “Anyone who wishes to move may do so” key words is ANYONE, and WHO WISHES. Literally no limits on immigration

@CringePun @JackWDart "Until then..."

Genuine question. Has anyone ever met anyone from the Green Party who has advocated for an ‘open border policy’? I mean, I’m not a Green, but I’ve never met one who does suggest this.

@Jeff118485 @MedicNamedHope You don’t think district 15 looks weird?

@MedicNamedHope TBH, that doesn't really look like gerrymandering. There's no really bizarre borders and it probably has roughly equal population in each. They might even be able to pickup of another red district if they got really creative around those lower blue ones.

I'm gonna say it, gerrymandering is immoral. Doesn't matter if it's team Smurf or team Elmo.

@BigPablo2020 @OliverALarkin Vermont and Delaware only have 1 district you dibshit

@OliverALarkin Democrats happy last week, this week its outrageous 😳 Democrats been Gerrymandering for years

This is a disgusting partisan manipulation by Ron DeSantis to suppress the will of the voters. We need to oppose these maps and win the battle for democracy.

@skitz0rama @OliverALarkin Mad that New England doesn’t vote brain dead MAGA politicians. You can change those seats boundaries you would get the same result.

@OliverALarkin 6 million people in these 6 states vote Republican and get 0 representation. I have no sympathy for you.

@X_StrayDog1 @OliverALarkin Dumbass most of those states have 1 or 2 seats and Massachusetts it’s not possible to create a Republican seat.

@OliverALarkin Do you hypocrite much?

@saltlife0343 @OliverALarkin Most of those states have 1 or 2 seats and they are divided fairly. Massachusetts would have no Republican seat regardless unless you created one through a laughable gerrymander

@OliverALarkin Shut up.

@JJOY_RIDE By their manifesto saying they will allow anyone who wishes to move to the uk to do so? Is that a difficult statement to understand? It aLeo states all skill and language requirements will be removed opening the door to even more people.

@SmileSmite83 source?

They don’t want open borders. So yes! Open those comment sections and vote Green💚

@Thegoatpiv @Cal_III “Where people can move if they wish to” that does that line require any additional context? That is literally open borders.

@Cal_III You didn’t read past the first line

It’s literally the first line of their migration policy.

@TroyM2002 @DisneyFan_1928 @RepDarrenSoto This is a map of Dallas from the 2018 election. You want to tell me this was not gerrymandered?

@SmileSmite83 @DisneyFan_1928 @RepDarrenSoto Texas started in December 2021 with a lawsuit from the DOJ for violating the Voting Rights Act. That’s the starting point I could find this decade (2020s)

Gerrymander or Dummymander? This map is an absolutely unlawful violation of the Florida Constitution. The Legislature should reject it. The courts should strike it down. That being said, there are 12+ seats that Democrats could still win under this map in this cycle.

@Hyhhuu7yhi @Doge111111111 @rewegreatyet @MrNOVApolitico @PeterSchorschFL Those maps had to change because republicans gerrymandered Alabama and Louisiana by diluting the black vote between different districts, sorry you aren’t allowed to draw racist electoral divisions??

@SmileSmite83 @Doge111111111 @rewegreatyet @MrNOVApolitico @PeterSchorschFL Nopez they would and as stated, that map is far less gerrymandered than the maps in Alabama and Louisiana mandated by Democrats

Certifiably insane to eliminate Democrat representation out of purple-as-a-plum Tampa Bay. This will backfire.

@DisneyFan_1928 @TroyM2002 @RepDarrenSoto Republican states have been gerrymandered for decades, Texas, North Carolina, the states in the South where they strategically split up the black vote between seats. And now they started this new round of gerrymandering with Texas.

@TroyM2002 @RepDarrenSoto Rs let it slide for decades and finally stood up. Ds don’t play, they get results. Now one R is responding but most are in their feelings. Only true solution is to shrink house districts and add representatives so gerrymandering is pointless, but until then this is it

@TurbineRider @micah_erfan That’s cause they are smart enough not to vote for brain dead MAGA politicians

@micah_erfan The entire northeast is 100% democrat districts.

> Republicans steal 14 Congressional seats by brutally gerrymandering mid-cycle. > Democrats respond with temporary maps and the consent of the people to take 9 back. Democrats also propose legislation to ban gerrymandering federally. The media: Both sides are bad!!!