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Gerrymandering and Texas go together like Stephen Miller and racism.
It has probably the most rigged elections of all states, being COMPLETELY controlled by the fascists in spite of having more registered Democrats than Republicans.
If that’s really the case, then registered Dems need to get off their assess and vote. While local representation might be gerrymandered, statewide races like Governor, Lt Gov, Supreme Court, and Attorney General are not. There’s no excuse for electing someone like Ted Cruz.
Yeah what the other guys missing is it's not just a problem of gerrymandering it's a problem of the fact that the Texas democratic party is the most incompetent State party I've ever seen in my life. They barely even put up a fight at times. I mean you should see some of the nothings they've run for State office in the past 30 years. In 2006 they had a four-way race, the Republican only won 39% of the vote. Golden opportunity. They wasted it on Chris Bell. A man so boring I'm not even sure if I got his name right and I'm shocked I remembered him at all. Couple rounds later they nominated a sheriff that nobody had heard of and even less people voted for. That says nothing of their attempts at Senate seats. Hopefully they got a hot one right now though in Talarico, as long as the party doesn't put their thumb on the scales and put up Allred again for another listless loss.
Point being that while gerrymandering is certainly significant it is absolutely not the only factor and anyone who thinks otherwise is destined to fail. Because the big problem in Texas is the Texas DNC is so apathetic and pathetic that they almost never actually get voters to turn out. They could, they could embrace energy and enthusiasm. They don't though.
registered Dems need to get off their assess and vote
The Democrats aren't underrepresented because they're too lazy to vote. They're underrepresented because their ability to vote has been extremely effectively curtailed by all manner of Republican ratfucking.
Blaming Democrats for not voting in Texas is like blaming people in wheelchairs for not going up stairs with no ramps. The Texas elections are specifically designed to effectively disenfranchise as many Democrats as possible.
While local representation might be gerrymandered, statewide races like Governor, Lt Gov, Supreme Court, and Attorney General are not
Yeah, because gerrymandering is the ONLY voter suppression tactic in existence 🙄
There’s no excuse for electing someone like Ted Cruz.
I mean, in a just system, there wouldn't be. When 99% of likely Republican voters are able to vote and only 30% of likely Democratic voters (not actual percentages, but likely not that far off), though, any other outcome is unlikely to the point of being nigh-impossible.
It's both.
So, what happened with the Gerrymandering war that happened a few months ago? Buncha red states redrew their maps and some blue states said they would? They still doing that or are we boned?
We're boned.