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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsG.O.P. Cements Hold on Legislatures in Battleground States
Democrats were once able to count on wave elections to win back key statehouses. Republican gerrymandering is making that all but impossible.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/us/politics/republican-redistricting-swing-states.html
Republicans are locking in newly gerrymandered maps for the legislatures in four battleground states that are set to secure the partys control in the statehouse chambers over the next decade, fortifying the G.O.P. against even the most sweeping potential Democratic wave elections.
In Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Georgia, Republican state lawmakers have either created supermajorities capable of overriding a governors veto or whittled down competitive districts so significantly that Republicans advantage is virtually impenetrable leaving voters in narrowly divided states powerless to change the leadership of their legislatures.
Although much of the attention on this years redistricting process has focused on gerrymandered congressional maps, the new maps being drafted in state legislatures have been just as distorted.
And statehouses have taken on towering importance: With the federal government gridlocked, these legislatures now serve as the countrys policy laboratory, crafting bills on abortion, guns, voting restrictions and other issues that shape the national political debate.
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G.O.P. Cements Hold on Legislatures in Battleground States (Original Post)
Celerity
Nov 2021
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Casady1
(2,133 posts)1. Democrats believe in governing
Republicans believe in ruling.
msongs
(69,282 posts)2. repubs believe in winning, without control bad things happen nt
mahina
(18,610 posts)3. The only thing Republicans want is power and money. They do not give a rats about voters.
David__77
(23,863 posts)4. So, is this a "democracy," as claimed by the government?
PortTack
(33,926 posts)5. The N.C. map is being legally challenged