Clay Bennett for September 10, 2023

They know that they only way to “win” is to cheat. So they cheat.

PS: If you cheat, you did NOT win.

PPS: There is a way to win without cheating: Do things that the voters WANT you to do. I know this is anathema for the GQP, but it WOULD be a way to win without cheating.

Leaving it to the states to choose who can and cannot vote and how and where is beyond evil. It’s as bad as any tinpot country can come up with and America has a track record of interfering in elections worldwide. As karma goes it’s what you deserve I suppose but it does drag the civilised world down with you as you will not be trusted as an ally.

Better to cheat then to loose right repugs?

The GQP is doing wherever they can. It’s all part of their master plan to change the country into a fascist dictatorship, with them in charge, of course. Look at my home state of Wisconsin, where Democrats have a strong record of winning statewide races like governor, attorney general, and senator. (Except for that cretin Ron Johnson, who won because in a statewide race where one candidate is white and the other nonwhite, Wisconsin reliably becomes Whitesconsin.) In races for the state legislature, the GQP has succeeded in gerrymandering the state so they can still have a supermajority, emulating what’s done in states like Alabama, MIssissippi, etc. They want to impeach our newest supreme court judge, who hasn’t even decided a single case yet, just because they’re afraid of having to share some of their political power. Might as well call the state Wississippi.

If you can’t beat ’em, cheat ’em.

Republicans. Plunging a knife into the heart of Democracy.

Not uncommon in many states for Dems to be concentrated in urban centers. So they expect those strongholds to be split up into many pieces in all sorts of weird geographical configurations in order to get districts they win by a slim margin.

I wonder if they have a name for that. Seem logical that districts be drawn in somewhat compact regions. Not like the joke they call the “earmuff district” that includes stretches of highways (just the road) where no one lives in order to parcel together a Democrat district.

Coming soon to North Carolina (already bad, but it’s about to get worse), the state where the gerrymandering was done to target Black voters “with almost surgical precision.”

Again, don’t blame the messenger. A CNN/SSRS poll of 1,503 adults nationwide conducted Aug. 25-31 shows Biden’s job approval rating stands at 39 percent, and 67 percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters say the Democratic Party should nominate someone other than Biden for president next year. The poll showed 58 percent of Americans have an unfavorable impression of Biden, and nearly three-quarters of respondents say they are concerned about his age.

A snippet from The Hill …

“… According to the Social Security Administration (SSA) “Cohort Life Expectancy” table, a male born in 1942 (Biden’s birth year) had a life expectancy at birth of 71.1 years. Of course, males born today have a much longer life expectancy, 82.3 years. But the longer a person lives, the longer he or she is expected to survive. For example, SSA estimates that a male born in 1942 who reached the age of 65 can, on average, expect to live another 12.8 years, which for Biden would take him to the age of 84 — about the middle of his second term.

The SSA also provides a life expectancy calculator, which says that a male born in 1942 who is still alive today (at 80) can expect to live another 8.4 years. That means that if Biden were to win his reelection bid, he would, on average, finish the term with a couple of years to spare.

But SSA’s calculator includes an important footnote: “The estimates of additional life expectancy do not take into account a wide number of factors such as current health, lifestyle, and family history that could increase or decrease life expectancy.”

Many people in their 80s are physically active and mentally alert. Harrison Ford is starring in the fifth Indiana Jones movie at age 80. Donald Trump at 77 is closing in on 80, and is still very physically active and high energy. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at 81 is still capable of proposing wrong-headed, socialist-inspired economic policies with much fervor. And investing icon Warren Buffet is still dispensing investment wisdom at 92. …"

Alapartheid.

dens loooove redistricting gerrymandering.. but just when they do it!

It’s no longer “politics” it’s now “warfare”

Gerrymandering is but one recourse for Republicans who cannot justify racism and bigotry to the American voters. That is why they absolutely hate mail-in voting.

The judge used a black crayon.

You could also put Florida there – Emperor DeSaintisn’t – is doing it under his guidance/wishes.

And they’re going to do it over and over till they’re voted out of office or the supreme court says their map is good.

This should have been done in the 1980s or early 1990s as computer power ramped up. Run a simple computer program where you start drawing the districts from the cardinal directions or the diagonals of them (so NW instead of N) for the states shaped like KY and TN. The party in power in the 0 or 1 years gets to pick from those maps. Nobody should be drawing their own lines in 2023, but now Republicans can’t win any fair elections so they rig everything they can no matter how blatant it is like this example.

Now we’re going to see just how political the 11th circuit is

There is a popular, if slightly racist, belief that members of some or another ethnic group will vote only for members of that group, and that any member of that group can legitimately “represent” all the members of that group. A corollary of that belief seems to be that, with single-member districts, the proportion of elected members of a group should somehow reflect the proportion of members of that group in the general population.

Single-member districts for legislatures (like the US House of Representatives, the Canadian House of Commons, &c) are inherently unfair for a number of reasons, which are made even worse by partisan gerrymandering. Only with proportional representation (my preference is for the Single Transferable Vote in multiple-representative districts) can voters honestly vote their preferences (without having to worry about strategic voting) and elect legislative bodies that are truly representative. https://bit DOT ly/CherniackElectoralReform2

My state is blue, but my county is red. Gerrymandering. Riverside, CA.

Sorry, all. Waiting on nausea med.