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LaMouffette

(2,527 posts) Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:16 PM 6 hrs ago

Y'know what would be exquisite? If, after all the R's efforts to gerrymander their way into winning elections in 2026,

if their own Republican voters turned on them and voted Democrat or didn't vote at all.

I know this sounds like crazy-talk. But it is my fervent hope that there are enough Republicans with half a brain still un-brainwashed by FoxNews and a conscience still stirring in their soul who are finally seeing Rump for the vile, disgusting, corrupt, soulless, traitor POS he is, to the point that they will either not vote or vote Democrat for the first time in their lives.

I know. Crazy-talk.

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Y'know what would be exquisite? If, after all the R's efforts to gerrymander their way into winning elections in 2026, (Original Post) LaMouffette 6 hrs ago OP

The potential risk with gerrymandering is... Old Testament Libera 6 hrs ago #1

That would be equally exquisite. I want to see them the day after Election Day 2026 looking like the Grinch when he sees LaMouffette 6 hrs ago #3

And another thing, Old Testament Libera 6 hrs ago #2

Good point. Thanks for adding to my little ember of hope! LaMouffette 6 hrs ago #4

Old Testament Libera

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1. The potential risk with gerrymandering is...

Reply to LaMouffette (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:23 PM

6 hrs ago

...that if the vote swings toward the Democrats by ten or twenty points, then we may take all those districts. Spreading out the Republican voters to capture more districts actually reduces the Republican margin in every red district, making it more vulnerable if there is a shift in voter sentiment.

With the recent 75%-25% Dem win in Virginia, and the overperformance by Dems in the two Florida special elections a few months back, it looks like just such a shift is in play. Republicans may gerrymander themselves out of an extra 10 to 20 seats!