Thoughts on this map?

[Twalli]

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

I think it's completely asinine that courts have allowed gerrymandering by either party to be legal. It completely takes away the rights of voters to be heard just to get a "win" for their party. Republicans started this bullshit though and now Democrats are responding in turn. This country is fucked.

[Twalli]

Prop 50 won't apply in the redrawing in 2030 (The Census). The bipartisan committee will still redraw the lines then.

[DrPepper12]

Public

Campaign

Finance

& Independent redistricting

& Eliminate senate

[Filthy_Immigrant]

as long as democrats stay in the minority it looks good

[Twalli]

If the elections on Tuesday are any guide, Texas's gerrymandering will be exactly what the Democrats were trying to prevent. They made 5 new districts that are heavily Hispanic. Trump got the Hispanic vote in 2024, he wouldn't now. It is very likely most of those will vote democrat in 2026, giving the democrats an even larger majority than they're slated to get in the midterms.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

yea good luck with that buddy

[exitseven]

If it benefits Republicans i am in favor of it. We need to keep the Republicans in control of congress.

[Twalli]

And if it backfires?

[exitseven]

I doubt that California will gain 5 seats.

[Twalli]

Actually that's pretty likely, it's less likely that Texas will get 5 new GOP seats especially considering the heavily Hispanic districts they created. Trump won them in 2024, but Hispanic support for the GOP has drastically decreased and it's possible several will flip blue. Thus undoing exactly what the GOP is trying to do.

[exitseven]

Hispanics do not automatically vote for democrats anymore. just the illegal ones.

[Twalli]

The last election had them voting for Trump. However, his approval among Hispanic voters is pretty low now, and as he said during the most recent election, he isn't on the ballot.

[exitseven]

He is on the balllot now. I think he just had a big waleup call.

[OneViewpoint]

Seat flips from partisan redistricting.

[msc545]

Democrats need three more seats.

[Twalli]

If there isn't a dummymandering effect. The thought is that the new districts will all vote in the way they were drawn to vote. However, the blue wave we saw on Tuesday means that a lot of red districts may actually vote blue in 2026. That's called dummymandering, when districts drawn to vote one way, vote the opposite way.

[seeyounexttuesday]

A lot of it is undoing democrat gerrymandering.

[JHNS98]

@seeyounexttuesday Why is gerrymandering still allowed in U. S. elections at all? European countries generally don't allow candidates to set the polling districts.

[seeyounexttuesday]

@JHNS98 I don't have the answer to that.

[Twalli]

@JHNS98 Gerrymandering isn't necessarily bad. Sometimes it makes sense to have weird shaped congressional districts, based on the population types. My zip code and another one nearby have relatively the same socioeconomic status, while a third doesn't even though it's near. It would make sense to make a district that excludes that, due to different socioeconomic statuses.

[seeyounexttuesday]

@Twalli that is quite frankly the dumbest rationale for gerrymandering. Everyone's vote counts the same regardless of their socioeconomic status.

[Twalli]

Which, in a national election is virtually 0,

[Twalli]

Try not voting, I bet your state won't flip to the other side, just because you didn't vote.

[seeyounexttuesday]

That has nothing to do with gerrymandering. dope.