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Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by on_and_off on Thursday August 01, 2019 @02:36PM (#20586862)
Interesting how everything is only Democrats vs Republicans in the USA.

It probably does not help the political climate that for most people it is just a binary choice.

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Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by tptacek on Thursday August 01, 2019 @02:41PM (#20586926)
That's a consequence of first-past-the-post voting (Duverger's law), not gerrymandering.
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Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by on_and_off on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:18PM (#20594721)
I should have used quotes, I was answering specifically about the 55/45 part of gp text :)
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