Jump to content

berlinerbaer

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    846
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Reputation

935 Surly 10%

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

  1. The truth is on our side. We don't need to lie.
  2. Looks like I'm wrong and CA voters would pass a mid-decade gerrymander according to a poll done by a TV station in Sacramento.
  3. I don't like seeing this thread bumped.
  4. Most blue states have independent commissions. Most red states and many purple states do not. If the commissions went away, the Dems would net a bunch of seats. Everyone is talking about California, but I think eliminating the commission in CA requires a ballot measure because it was enacted by ballot measure and a change in the state constitution. It's not a given that the voters will repeal it, since it's the kind of thing only partisan Dems would vote for. The few Dem states that do gerrymander (NY, IL, MD) will need to go hard to the paint, as will the few more that have commissions set up by laws that can be repealed by the legislature. I don't think CA is the way.
  5. Word is they are assuming 2024 voting patterns to get to a +5 R pickup. Edit: He meant 5ish seats in 2024, not 2026.
  6. We don’t need a third party. We just need one party to have serious primary challengers next year. I think there is enough anger within the Dem base for it to happen. We can’t just accept whomever the Party anoints. Looking at you, Colin.
  7. I believe Texas law forbids counties of low population from being cracked open. This map shouldn't fly for that reason. https://redistricting.capitol.texas.gov/reqs That being said, rule 3 is violated all the time.
  8. I and maybe thousands of others have had this exact quote written on a sign over the past few months. I think Texas Dems are starting to get with it. This is exhibit A. Exhibit B is the Dems making a spectacle out of the upcoming redistricting hearings this Saturday. Nothing to lose
  9. Texas Dems are holding a rally right before the Texas House public hearings on redistricting are supposed to be held in the same general area. Are they learning?
  10. Try to show up if you can. Edit: More details regarding venues to come...
  11. It's early but Jon Ossoff is running way ahead of likely Republican challengers, both in fundraising and polling. Kemp declined to run against him. If he's at 49% with 10% undecided, in a R pollster, this thing is over.
  12. It’s white privilege in a nutshell
  13. All of this. The AI provision banning any regulation for a decade was also scrapped. Maybe responsible governance can address that shit 4 years from now. The Dems need to take the House in 2026 and play hardball with the budget and try to chip away at the edges of this monstrosity.
  14. Yes. Politics is performative. I’d rather the Dems play the game to win if that is how it’s done. He gets a C-/D+ for the semester. At least a damn good final exam score kept him from failing outright.
  15. If this bill can undo prior legislation then there is no reason a future bill couldn’t undo this one.
×
×
  • Create New...