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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by jolux on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:31PM (#27523435)
I used to think this was true, but I think the last election has proved this theory wrong. The Democrats won, but there was record turnout for both candidates, and it was a lot closer than many were expecting. Republicans are in the process of making it so it doesn’t matter who wins.
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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by Jcowell on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:44PM (#27523547)
I feel this doesn’t account for districts that were Gerry wandered and what would have happened had there been fair drawing of districts I. These communities. This is Where number allocation is more important that how many numbers there are.
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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by InitialLastName on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:22PM (#27551977)
Barring historical arguments about the Dakotas, modern Gerrymandering doesn't meaningfully apply to the presidential election, which was also closer than many forecasters predicted.
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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by bobthepanda on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:03PM (#27523699)
well, there's an entire class of seats that by definition can't really be gerrymandered (Senate seats are always statewide).

Those did not flip nearly as hard as polls had projected.

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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by jolux on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:02PM (#27524077)
Right, exactly. People were predicting a blowout and it ended up 50/50 in the senate. The electoral college was comparatively rather close too.
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