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I know you aren't suggesting gerrymandering is a new thing as it's been an ugly part of elections forever. And of course, both parties have been guilty of doing it whenever they can get away with it. But close to home, the rigging that affects me is Ohio where our congressional and state seats are so badly gerry mandered in favor of republicans that even a state constitutional amendment has yet to fix it.Gerrymandering is one of the worse things that has ever happened in this country.
That's why the GOP hasn't kicked out the crazies -- because they can still win the House, thanks to gerrymandering.
DeSantis' gerrymandering in FL may have been enough for the Repugs to barely take the House. What an asshole.
I know you aren't suggesting gerrymandering is a new thing as it's been an ugly part of elections forever. And of course, both parties have been guilty of doing it whenever they can get away with it. But close to home, the rigging that affects me is Ohio where our congressional and state seats are so badly gerry mandered in favor of republicans that even a state constitutional amendment has yet to fix it.
Same here in Ohio.Both parties have done it, but Republicans are far worse.
WI may be the worst gerrymandered state. Even if Democrats won 60% of the vote there, the Republicans can still keep control of the state legislature. Just ridiculous.
Same here in Ohio.
A few months back, the New Yorker did a long story addressing the issue of How did a bellwether state like Ohio, generally moderate politically, become a bastion of far right christian based politics with one of the most restrictive abortion laws on record, and worse to dome?
The answer of course was rampant gerry mandering and the republicans in charge eager to whore themselves out to the fringe christian right.
And that's about the time Obama came out from behind his Professors ropes, and started his tour. Obama reminded the base and college students what was at stake if they got lazy, and Biden reminded the centrists, the older voters, and the blue collar workers. Notice that the Clintons kept a low profile. Roe was going to duplicate any possible good Hillary might accomplish among women, and Bill might as well have died already.Remember how Trumpworld laughed at Biden's speech about democracy being in danger? I don't see many in Trumpworld laughing this morning.
Democracy isn't going anywhere, never was. Stop with the over the top, fear and loathing strategies. It isn't good for America. The true threat to democracy is a continued destruction of America's values, morals, traditions, patriotism and position as the world power.Just called -- Fetterman won the PA Senate race!!
YES!!!....Democracy is potentially saved for 2 more years!!
Democracy isn't going anywhere, never was. Stop with the over the top, fear and loathing strategies. It isn't good for America. The true threat to democracy is a continued destruction of America's values, morals, traditions, patriotism and position as the world power.
Having come from a White, blue-collar family here in Ohio it continues to baffle me also that similarly situated folks could believe in folks like Trump and Trumpism. The issue seems to be more the fact that not only was Trumpism embraced by the rural counties, it was embraced by a huge margin of voters. I recognize that occurred in a lot of other states as well. Because you know, no one can represent the hard working family values of rural famers like a billionaire born into wealth and privilege, draft dodger, philanderer, tax cheat and all around fraudster who brags about himself incessantly.Yep, it's really confounding. I just don't get it.
Are white blue collar workers there stupid enough to think that the Republicans are going to make their lives better? I guess they weren't paying attention during the economic crashes in 2008 under Bush and 2020 under Trump.
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