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I’ll also take Utah by 25 over Shavita
“I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I
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[quote quote=6610]Huh…. I guess the red wave isn’t quite what it was supposed to be. It always pays to go by the old adage: “Don’t believe the hype.”[/quote]
Welllllll, are we surprised? The Congressional Districts were just redrawn based on the 2020 census. The pros pissed all over each others shoes hoping to gain an advantage. Can we expect change this cycle?
The red wave was Miami Dade/Florida. Republicans winning in that part of Florida? No democrats holding state wide office? Not since reconstruction? That’s significant change that is immune to gerrymandering.
Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long -
Ps: I read that Republican house candidates received 6 million more votes nationally than their democrat counterparts. Yet relatively few seats flipped.
The power of gerrymandering front and center. Do citizens have a “vote” anymore?
Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long -
Ps: I read that Republican house candidates received 6 million more votes nationally than their democrat counterparts. Yet relatively few seats flipped. The power of gerrymandering front and center. Do citizens have a “vote” anymore?
At 10 p.m. Pacific time on November 10, the vote count is:
Republicans, 50,935,540 (52.2%)
Democrats, 45,226,768 (47.8%)
So the Repubs have about 5.7 million votes more than the Dems.
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It turns out there’s an interesting explanation for the popular vote disparity.
In the 2022 election, there were many more uncontested House districts held by Republicans (14) than by Democrats (3). And there were another 10 districts in which the GOP had no major-party opponents, compared with just three for Democrats.
Thanks to California’s top-two primary system, there are also another six districts in which Democrats have the votes all to themselves, because the two finalists are both Democrats.
So effectively, there are more than 20 districts in which the GOP could run up the score, compared with a dozen for Democrats.Excluding these districts, the popular vote apparently would have been much closer.
NO MALARKEY
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