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Originally Posted by Bladewire
They won districts through extreme racist gerrymandering that the supreme Court ruled illegal last week.
Supreme Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Racial Gerrymander | Mother Jones
Roughly 30 percent of North Carolina's voters are registered Republicans, but the GOP holds 10 of the state's 13 seats in Congress. They stole those elections through illegal racial gerrymandering. How undemocratic. So much for one vote per person and equal rights eh?
Now that the supreme Court has weighed in things will change in 2018 & 2020 elections because Republicans have been doing this the last few years, rigging voting, to steal elections. |
Gerrymandering is also only part of the story. Republicans like throw around statements like "Trump won 84% of the counties in the country." Now that number might not be exactly correct, but it is in the ballpark. That is technically true, but in many of those counties there are barely any people in them. Take, for example, my state. We have 36 counties. Trump won 28 of them, but he lost the state by 11 points. When you look at the breakdown you can see that Oregon has about 4 million people. 2 million of them live in 4 counties (all won easily by Clinton). Trump won a bunch of counties that have hardly anyone in them. In one county he got 671 votes and won it easily as there were only about 900 total votes cast in that county. Winning a bunch of empty space is not a landslide.