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Feinstein is a senator. How could gerrymandering have anything to do with her election?
by tshtf 11y ago
Feinstein is a senator. How could gerrymandering have anything to do with her election?
- tptacek 11y ago(the answer, of course, is that it can't)
- cma 11y agoPassive gerrymandering. California's state lines were intentionally not redrawn before the last election, so as to not absorb Republican voters from Nevada, which would have diluted the democratic majority in California and made things tough for Feinstein. The OP is hinting through his username that somehow the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange was involved.
- spicyj 11y agoUnlikely, given that mtgx's account here is 3.5 years old.
- tptacek 11y agoI am finding it very difficult to believe that any modern border dispute between California and Nevada could have flipped California. Feinstein won 49.5 to 12.7; a landslide victory. Gerrymandering had nothing to do with CISA.
- snowwrestler 11y agoHave you seen the shape of California? I mean, it's implausible at best. :-) But seriously, it's kind of fun to imagine what life would be like if U.S. states were shaped like House districts. Maryland is probably the closest, geometrically.
- schoen 11y agoThere's a cool exhibit in the Oakland Museum of California about proposals for the shape of the eastern border of California! Interestingly, some of the motivations for the proposals did involve something like gerrymandering, in terms of arguments about how many Mormons who had emigrated to the west would end up being included in California's territory. Another interesting thing about the California-Nevada border that ended up getting adopted is where the northwest line turns north (where the bend is): it's inside of Lake Tahoe. That makes it a lot easier to remember!
- WildUtah 11y agoHave you seen the shape of California? Did you know that Reno has been gerrymandered so far it's now west of Los Angeles? That has to be some kind of conspiracy. Otherwise it would just be impossible.
- snowwrestler 11y agoCalifornia was stretched so far that it covers the full distance from the lowest elevation in the lower 48 to the highest summit in the lower 48. It was also shaped so that it encompassed the driest point in the U.S.--Death Valley--and one of the wettest: 100 feet underwater below the Golden Gate Bridge. Also, if the state of California were its own country, it would be referred to as the nation of California. True story.
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