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> The voters elected a Republican government. FALSE. The voters were sidelined by both old (electoral college) and new (mechanically-assisted gerrymandering) m

> The voters elected a Republican government. FALSE. The voters were sidelined by both old (electoral college) and new (mechanically-assisted gerrymandering) methods. Just look at Texas: "The redistricting had a revolutionary effect. Today, the Texas delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives includes twenty-five Republicans and eleven Democrats—a far more conservative profile than the political demography of the state. The Austin metropolitan area, the heart of the Texas left, was divvied up into six congressional districts, with city residents a minority in each. All but one of these districts are now held by Republicans. I’m currently represented by Roger Williams, a conservative automobile dealer from Weatherford, two hundred miles north of Austin." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/americas-future-is-texas https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/americas-futur... Republicans have used these tools to cook up an unprecedented constitutional challenge to our republic. MULTIPLE suits are presently being heard by the Supreme Court regarding their shenanigans.

dragonwriter 9y ago
> FALSE. The voters were sidelined by both old (electoral college) and new (mechanically-assisted gerrymandering) methods. More of them voted, for the House of Representatives, for Republicans than for any other party. It's true that the actual representation of Republicans is outsized for that vote, and gerrymandering played a role, but they also got more votes. (And an outright majority voted for anti-NN parties.) Good point on the Presidency, though (but even there, it's a hairs breadth either way on whether pro- or anti-NN candidates got a majority of votes.)