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KS Toronado

(17,329 posts)
7. Yes, he believes the R party has to die for the good of this country.
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 01:20 AM
Jan 2022

He's one of the few conservatives that is a true patriot.

calimary

(81,500 posts)
12. He helped build this. But his experiment turned out to be Frankenstein.
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 02:22 AM
Jan 2022

So now he’s among those pathetic Johnny-come-latelys that have seen (or profess to have seen) the error of their politics and now are trying to make amends.

Nice of you to show up after you and your pals tried to wreck the place. I guess you’re sorry. But you and your newly-chastened pals have to do A LOT more than just say the right things.

Skittles

(153,193 posts)
11. I'm just very leery of repukes who think Trump corrupted the party
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 02:01 AM
Jan 2022

repukes have stunk it up for DECADES

Cha

(297,692 posts)
5. Rt TY.. YAY New York Dems!!
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 12:48 AM
Jan 2022

Someone mentioned this in another thread on the Brutal New York Redistricting!!

PurgedVoter

(2,220 posts)
8. Truth is we need a better method than districts.
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 01:33 AM
Jan 2022

We need to have a system where votes count, even when they disagree.

GB_RN

(2,384 posts)
9. I Hate That We Have To Do This...
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 01:41 AM
Jan 2022

But if we didn't, we'd lose the House majority simply from GOPQ gerrymandering in Texas and Florida. They've got a few other states that are trying hard, too.

NC is still up in the air depending on what our state Supreme Court does (the Democrats hold a 4-3 majority on the NCSC). Right now, we've only got 4/14 seats. The state constitution has requirements for "free and fair elections" (among other protections), like PA does. And the state is pretty evenly divided between R/D registrations. If all goes well at the SC, we could end up with a roughly even split. Ironically, that's about how the districts were apportioned before the GOPQ took over the state legislature back in 2011 and gerrymandered everything all to hell.

Ohio won't be as bad as it could have been, thanks to their state Supreme Court ruling that what their legislature put out was a gross violation of the state's constitutional requirements. With luck, we'll end up with 6-7 seats there vs only 2 out of the 15 that they'd originally mapped out.

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