Elijah Cummings dead and in hell

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Just ask them, they’ll tell you they haven’t lost an election in 20 or 30 years. Every Republican victory has been stolen, illegitimate etc. Gerrymandering’s only a bad thing when Republicans do it etc etc.

Admittedly it probably feels much better to say/believe that than to say you ran a bad candidate, or your candidate ran a bad campaign or people just didn’t like what you had to offer.

Yes, and it all changes so quickly. Until 2016 all the Republicans thought there was a lot of election fraud (especially by illegals and immigrants) and wanted a voter Id. Democrats told us there was almost no election fraud. Today, Republicans think there is little election fraud (because they don't want to admit Russian interference) and Democrats are claiming Trump only won the election because of Russia claiming there was a lot of election fraud.

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Liberals are unable to accept that Hillary the hun got her butt handed to her, and that's a lot of handing by the way.

look, We all knew Obama was going to be a disaster, but instead of whining for years on end, we let him prove it and then we moved on

This great country has election cycles checks and balances for that very reason

there was no whiner clause written in the constitution.
yet liberals would certainly pass the legislation if they could

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Good point. Democrats claim that Republicans only control legislatures or the U. S. House because of gerrymandering. But Republicans had to win control of those states away from Democrats who had gerrymandered them to their advantage. Also, it does not explain why state-wide offices like Senator or governor won Republican control.

2018 is proof that gerrymandering did not prevent Democrats from winning the House or that voter suppression was preventing them from voting. All they had to do was go vote and quit making lame excuses for losing. Turnout determined the 2018 results and because the president's party almost always loses seats in mid-terms (41/47 since 1826).

You completely understood the point. When Republican legislature are in control and gerrymander, Democrats consider it a bad thing. When Democrats gerrymander because of race, they consider it totally acceptable.

Many times, the party holding the presidency loses in the Senate. However, Trump didn't. Obama did and he lost 50% more in the House than Trump did. For some reason, Democrats consider Republicans losing only 40 as a whipping but Obama losing over 60 as a victory.

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Yes, and it all changes so quickly. Until 2016 all the Republicans thought there was a lot of election fraud (especially by illegals and immigrants) and wanted a voter Id. Democrats told us there was almost no election fraud. Today, Republicans think there is little election fraud (because they don't want to admit Russian interference) and Democrats are claiming Trump only won the election because of Russia claiming there was a lot of election fraud.

There's still a lot of election fraud voter ID would help. Russian interference was some bullshit Democrats dreamed occurred because they can't accept the thought of losing.

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Liberals are unable to accept that Hillary the hun got her butt handed to her, and that's a lot of handing by the way.

look, We all knew Obama was going to be a disaster, but instead of whining for years on end, we let him prove it and then we moved on

Indeed. But we're dealing with dims here. Ever seen a group wearing diaper pins, hiding in safe rooms with coloring books and stuffed unicorns because they lost an election? And then once out, violent protests against free speech, assault and battering police horses and journalists?

This great country has election cycles checks and balances for that very reason

Apparently they're not too confident in the upcoming election. I wouldn't be with those choices.

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They struck down those districts they labeled "racial gerrymandering" that race was used as the main factor in drawing that district.

When a district is gerrymandered in the manner majority minority districts are gerrymandered, race is the ONLY factor.

For example, Tennessee 9th, represented by Steve Cohen (D), has a 66.15% black population. The population of the 9th district is 705,000 of which 470,000 is black. The black population in Tennessee is 1.15 million or 16.8% of total black population of the State. For race to not to be the only factor, it would mean 41% of the State's black population would have to coincidentally live in an area that makes up <2% of the state's total square miles.

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When a district is gerrymandered in the manner majority minority districts are gerrymandered, race is the ONLY factor.

I should have said racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional when race is the only factor. Race can be a factor in redistricting.

Does Tennessee have any black representatives?

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BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from longstanding health problems. He was 68.

Cummings was a formidable orator who advocated for the poor in his black-majority district , which encompasses a large portion of Baltimore and more well-to-do suburbs.

As chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings led investigations of the president's government dealings, including probes in 2019 relating to Trump's family members serving in the White House.

https://news.yahoo.com/us-rep-elijah...093050451.html

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I should have said racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional when race is the only factor. Race can be a factor in redistricting.

Does Tennessee have any black representatives?

Apparently not when it comes to creating majority minority districts.

The representatives don't have to be black. That 22/23 black majority minority districts in the 116th House is no coincidence. Steve Cohen from Tennessee 9th is the only non-black of the 23. All 23 are Democrats.