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    Do you ever post opinions or are you selecting shit for others to read?

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    Hofeller, the master GOP mapmaker and white-haired veteran of the most important decennial wars in politics, delivered a presentation called “Redistricting 2010: Preparing for Success.” What he laid out that Monday morning, apparently for the first time before Republican state legislators, explains why the Republican Party now dominates all levels of American politics despite a polarized and closely divided electorate that generally tends to favor Democrats. It was the GOP strategy to reinvent the gerrymander.

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    If there is to be a blue wave in 2018, it will need to overcome a red seawall that was exactingly designed beginning a decade ago and has proven impermeable in state after state ever since. Even in Virginia last November, Democrats won nearly a quarter of a million more votes than Republicans — and it still wasn’t enough to overcome district lines rigged to guarantee the GOP a built-in advantage. In Alabama, where Doug Jones recently became the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in decades, disgraced GOP candidate Roy Moore still carried six of the state’s seven gerrymandered congressional districts.
    Those kinds of results — Democrats winning more votes, Republicans holding more seats — have become almost commonplace this decade. It’s not a coincidence.

    The visionaries at the Republican State Leadership Committee, who designed the aptly-named strategy dubbed REDMAP, short for Redistricting Majority Project, managed to look far beyond the short-term horizon. They designed an audacious and revolutionary plan to wield the gerrymander as a tool to lock in conservative governance of state legislatures and Congress.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reverend_Hellh0und View Post
    Do you ever post opinions or are you selecting shit for others to read?
    my opinion is you are dumber than fucking shit to make that statement

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    Payback is a Bitch
    ONE-N-DONE, YOU GOT PLAYED; Time To Play-On
    Remember ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES ... So STFU Bitch

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    Gerrymandering has to go. I'm amazed when I see the %'s in some of these districts - how Democrats have to win 70% of the vote just to break even in certain areas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    next time maybe you should BELIEVE me when I try to tell you something for a fucking decade huh thingy
    What are you talking about desh?

    I've been against gerrymandering for as long as it has existed. Don't be a narcissist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thing1 View Post
    What are you talking about desh?

    I've been against gerrymandering for as long as it has existed. Don't be a narcissist.
    I have been talking about republicans cheating in elections for over a decade.

    I took shit from even dems for it here

    don't you remember

    want me to go get some of the threads about it I started.


    YOU Here on all sides called me insane for it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thing1 View Post
    What are you talking about desh?

    I've been against gerrymandering for as long as it has existed. Don't be a narcissist.
    why did you refuse to discuss it with me then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    I have been talking about republicans cheating in elections for over a decade.

    I took shit from even dems for it here

    don't you remember

    want me to go get some of the threads about it I started.


    YOU Here on all sides called me insane for it
    Gerrymandering isn't "cheating" - nothing they did was outside of the rules. We just need to change the rules. Dems gerrymander also.

    What you have talked about is widespread fraud and actual cheating. You're just like Trump in that regard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    my opinion is you are dumber than fucking shit to make that statement



    U mad, bro?

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    my opinion is you are dumber than fucking shit to make that statement
    Yes, you're right. That's our good friend Toxic. First Rev Hellwhore had a masters in psychology. Now she's suddenly got her own business comprising both IT (my husband's career) and security (Mason's). It's true! So true!

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