Sometimes I feel bad about Maryland being gerrymandered D. Then I look at the current GOP and their majority states, and I thank Furry Jesus for the gerrymander.
Sometimes I feel bad about Maryland being gerrymandered D. Then I look at the current GOP and their majority states, and I thank Furry Jesus for the gerrymander.
I live in Maryland and honestly itтАЩs not so offensively gerrymandered anymore, at least at the congressional level. No more drunk pterodactyl shaped districts.
Are you a center-R or hard-R in MD, though? My (few) acquaintances who are seem to believe they are the last outpost of sense in the state, and that, frankly, the incoming migrants are about to cut their throats and convert their children.
In the short term, a nonpartisan districting by the kind of algorithmic system I advocate for every state would probably flip the 6th back for one additional R seat in the west, a 6-2 rather than 7-1 delegation. But, several seats including both R districts would be more competitive than all but the 6th have been.
Fortunately we're making headway on the issue, because otherwise at some point the only valid strategy would be for blue states to embrace retributive gerrymanders as a means of counterbalance. I'd prefer Maryland go to a better system, tbh.
Sometimes I feel bad about Maryland being gerrymandered D. Then I look at the current GOP and their majority states, and I thank Furry Jesus for the gerrymander.
I live in Maryland and honestly itтАЩs not so offensively gerrymandered anymore, at least at the congressional level. No more drunk pterodactyl shaped districts.
Are you a center-R or hard-R in MD, though? My (few) acquaintances who are seem to believe they are the last outpost of sense in the state, and that, frankly, the incoming migrants are about to cut their throats and convert their children.
In the short term, a nonpartisan districting by the kind of algorithmic system I advocate for every state would probably flip the 6th back for one additional R seat in the west, a 6-2 rather than 7-1 delegation. But, several seats including both R districts would be more competitive than all but the 6th have been.
Fortunately we're making headway on the issue, because otherwise at some point the only valid strategy would be for blue states to embrace retributive gerrymanders as a means of counterbalance. I'd prefer Maryland go to a better system, tbh.
I have no idea who тАЬFurry JesusтАЭ is but I love the name.
Jesus in furs, of course. ЁЯШЬ