Re:Colbert turns his funny gun on Snowden in RSA keynote
by WiseWeasel on Sunday March 02, 2014 @11:38AM
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Gerrymandering works both ways; you can't bring up the disenfranchised Democratic voters in Republican districts without recognizing the disenfranchised Republican voters in Democratic districts, or third party voters in every district. You could have simply stated that the goal of established political parties is to win government by hook or by crook, with preference to the latter since it requires less effort.
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Re:Colbert turns his funny gun on Snowden in RSA keynote
by pilom on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:18PM
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I think the argument mrartzloff is trying to make hinges on the fact that the House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans even though republicans lost the popular vote nation wide. i.e. 1.4 million more people voted for a Democratic representative than a Republican one and yet, Republicans had 33 more seats than Democrats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Represen...
There are at least 2 possible reasons for this. One which is argued above is that it is because of gerrymandering districts. The second is that in Democratic districts votes were more lopsided where in districts where Republicans won, they won by smaller margins. In either case, more than 50% of Americans voted for a Democrat to be their representative in the house of representatives and yet Democrats do not hold the majority of seats.
Re:Colbert turns his funny gun on Snowden in RSA keynote
by mratzloff on Monday March 03, 2014 @02:16PM
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> Gerrymandering works both ways; you can't bring up the disenfranchised Democratic voters in Republican districts without recognizing the disenfranchised Republican voters in Democratic districts
The link I supplied shows that it is predominantly Democratic voters being disenfranchised.