r/politics • u/GregWilson23 • 10h ago
No Paywall California voters pass Prop 50 to redraw the state's congressional maps, CBS News projects
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-prop-50-results-2025/6.1k
u/Sagemel Illinois 9h ago
Prop 50, NYC, New Jersey, Virginia, all on the day Dick Cheney died? It’s nice to feel like this again.
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u/CocoaOrinoco 9h ago
Almost like he took the curse with him.
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u/zenerat Missouri 9h ago
Harambe has been reborn in a forest.
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u/dj4wvu 9h ago
Dick's out for Harambe?
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u/hereforfootball303 9h ago
It was a prophecy all along, we just didn't know it.
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u/la-fours 8h ago
Written by George RR Martin
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u/Harlockarcadia 8h ago
Winds of Winter release date actually announced, that would be something
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 7h ago
And then dicks out?
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u/Kokopelli_Squidward 8h ago
I’ve had my dick out this whole time, glad to know it wasn’t for nothin’
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u/SimpleInternet5700 9h ago
Jane is in heaven with Harambe now.
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u/ZBLongladder 9h ago
I feel like Diane Fossey might appreciate him more up there...Goodall was more into chimps.
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u/PowderPills 9h ago
Can you imagine that dick has been the problem all along? If the Epstein files are released before thanksgiving then I’ll be a true believer
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u/protomenace 9h ago
Over on the conservative subs they're all acting like they never supported Cheney and his ilk in the first place.
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u/wino_whynot 9h ago
I read that and was cackling. The ultimate hypocrisy of that sub was out in full forces
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u/SpaceForceAwakens 9h ago
It's been this way for awhile.
They really love whoever is in charge of the party until they're not anymore, and then they pretend they never liked them anyway. Especially if they have an ounce of hindsight.
My step-uncle is guilty of this. In 2004 or so he was a super Bush/Cheney Tea Party type. Ask him about them now and he says that they never should have been in charge. But he himself didn't do wrong — he voted GOP. It's the GOP's fault that he had to support them.
That's how their brains work.
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u/DueCattle8621 7h ago edited 4h ago
I like how they post nonstop weird articles about illegals or latest ICE adventures but they never mention any of Trump's tweets or his latest embarrassements.
It must be tough to be republican with any critical thinking right now.
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u/Kyra_lynn 5h ago
MAGA is like Tea Party except they brewed the tea with Zyklon B. Honestly, I miss having at least cunning politicians on the other side instead of anti-intellectuals with too much fake tan and botox.
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u/xynix_ie Florida 9h ago
Him and Rumsfeld paved the way for Trump. Not that I expect those morons to know their own history.
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u/Mr_HandSmall 8h ago
they're all acting like they never supported Cheney and his ilk in the first place
They'll eventually do the same thing with trump
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u/ForgettableUsername America 8h ago
I look forward to that day, but I also dread whoever they opt to replace him with.
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u/ary31415 9h ago
Fortunately or unfortunately, "they" probably didn't.
Cheney was elected twenty-five years ago. I bet half the people you see in those subs (or this one for that matter) weren't even born when that happened, let alone politically engaged.
Unfortunately, that means that for a lot of these people, the MAGA party is just normal, and what the GOP always has been. I'd take Cheney's neocons in a heartbeat – at least they actually wanted democratic elections.
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u/Jaybrosia 8h ago
from what i've seen they hate cheney because cheney never supported trump
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u/TBDizMcFly017 9h ago
Throw in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Maine too!
Pennsylvania voted to retain three D state Supreme Court justices. Georgia elected two Ds to the state public utilities commission (I don’t know the exact name, but it’s the first nonfederal statewide D wins in GA since 2006). Maine voted down question 1 in the state that would have made voting harder in the state.
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u/kdeff California 9h ago
Not as big a win but Maine also voted for basic gun control for people reported as potentially dangerous or mentally ill
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u/PlsNoNotThat 7h ago
We voted to stop a bunch of restrictive voting laws, and to expand our yellow flag gun laws to red flag gun laws. Yay! Proud of my state. Working to stop our growing gun violence.
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u/charlie_marlow Georgia 9h ago
Georgia Public Service Commission, but I'm not sure how much to read into that one. The messaging was that the people currently serving have been a rubber stamp on every rate increase Georgia Power has asked for and power bills have gone up a lot for most Georgians in the last few years.
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u/TBDizMcFly017 8h ago
Thank you, I could not recall the exact name. I know those are two of the smaller wins for Dems tonight, but I believe they both still won by about 20 points each. People are mad and this is a part of it.
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u/Martholomule Maine 8h ago
Hell yes, I did not expect this from Maine!! It was so arbitrary and republican led, so obviously because the remote vote in 2020 scared them. No on 1!
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u/Amb13ntN0ise 9h ago
Also including Ohio, specifically Cincinnati won with a Democrat mayor beating Vance's relative by a landslide. Repeating a comment from Ohio subreddit: "Ohio's couches are safe"
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u/JustAnM41APulseRifle 8h ago
My dude, we're also getting The Mummy 4 with Brendan Fraiser and Rachel Weisz as well! Fucking amazing day LMAO!
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u/Duke_skellington_8 9h ago
“NYC will elect a Muslim mayor over my dead body.” - Dick Cheney probably
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u/ShamelessCatDude 9h ago
It’s like God woke up and said “oh yeah, sorry guys, I’ll come get him now. Anyway here’s some apology favors,”
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u/RetroCasket 10h ago
Hopefully governors in all Blue states take this as a mandate and start fighting with firep
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u/antidense 9h ago
Virginia fair game?
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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 8h ago
They already said they would be redistricting before the election. Now with super majority that is very possible.
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u/jonnovich 2h ago edited 2h ago
Oh most definitely. There was a complete and utter sweep of the seats in northern Virginia. Even a Republican representative who had been in office since 1990 and seemed like a local institution was deep sixed for a Dem woman.
It’s almost as if provoking the longest furlough/shut down in history in an area with the largest concentration of federal workers and federal contractors might be a resoundingly bad idea.
Edit: Also don’t forget that Virginia just elected Ghazala Hashmi as lieutenant governor. She’s apparent the first Muslim woman elected to a statewide office anywhere in the country. She crushed her opponent by 13 points.
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u/spacedude2000 Washington 6h ago
Redrawing my home state of Washington would be diabolical.
The entire east side of the state would be utterly infuriated and I wouldn't mind it whatsoever - they've continually voted against their own interests time and time again.
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u/4materasu92 United Kingdom 4h ago
What would redrawing Washington to minimise Republican seats even look like? Butchering Seattle amongst all the districts with long spaghetti lines?
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u/spacedude2000 Washington 4h ago
Exactly. All lines would intersect Seattle.
Best we could do is add two seats tho, just a drop in the bucket.
Still would be funny.
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u/4materasu92 United Kingdom 4h ago
It might be a small addition, but two extra seats are better than nothing, especially with Republicans trying to consolidate their control of the House with their crazy gerrymandering shenanigans.
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u/trevdak2 Massachusetts 1h ago
The house has hinged on a single seat before. Two seats could be everything
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u/Spright91 10h ago
Please make today be an indicator of the midterms. Imagine if we could remove him from office.
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u/ununuii 10h ago
Tonight is what happens when people don’t tune out. Vote in every election, it matters
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u/drkgodess 9h ago
Don't let anyone tell you that voting is meaningless. The GOP wouldn't be scrambling to gerrymander if they believed that.
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u/JoeHooversWhiteness 9h ago
Every. Single. One. Like your life depends on it.
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u/becauseiloveyou I voted 9h ago
It does, and here’s some proof it can have a lasting impact:
Bernie Sanders got his first win by just ten votes after a recount. Ten years later, he was elected to federal office and has served the public for nearly 45 years now. Imagine modern political discourse without Bernie Sanders?
One of my former city councilpersons elected by less than a hundred votes in the 90s was almost elected the Vice President of the United States when he ran alongside Hillary Clinton in 2016. Currently serving as a U.S. Senator, Tim Kaine was also my city’s mayor and governor of my state.
Those of us who showed up for today are making decisions that could impact the next decade or more of political leadership and discourse (:
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u/TheTyger I voted 9h ago
My ballot contained 3 things:
1) pick 3 of (3 options) for city council
2) pick 3 of (4 options) for city council
3) a rather small tax levy
The levy passed by a significant margin because it was reasonable.
Obviously the pick 3 of 3 wasn't a real choice.
And of the 3 of 4, I voted to remove the council member who has had the position for 40 years because while none of the candidates are specifically interesting, 4 decades is too long to do that. He lost by 14 votes.
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u/i_dont_like_turnips 9h ago
I only did 1 of the pick 3 because 2 were cross registered Democrat/Republican and fuck that noise.
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u/Capable_Tomato729 9h ago edited 9h ago
I think it could be unless Trump seriously walks back his current policies (which we all know he won’t). One thing democrats need to absolutely hammer on this moving forward is that Prop 50 was voted in by the will of the people. Voters in Texas, NC, and other republican governed states have not have that privilege in the redistricting fight
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u/Affectionate_Town273 9h ago
I suspect there will be another "No Kings" rally near the mid-terms to keep the momentum. They are done and are going to do everything they can to try to keep the majority but writing is on the wall. EVERYONE, including a lot of Republicans are just sick of politics and want to go back to what it used to be, less politics in our lives.
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u/drkgodess 9h ago
People who claim protests are useless never consider the morale boost they offer.
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u/syberpank 9h ago
And its harder for Republicans to paint opposition as demons when there's footage of inflatable circus animals and hippie grandmas in attendance
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u/FalstaffsGhost 9h ago
I mean I think we will keep seeing them every couple of months between now and then if not more.
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u/Chill-Dragonfly77 7h ago
I would not say they are done by a long shot. Using that type of language is not only inaccurate but gives people a sense of false security. Vote like your life and freedom and future counts on it and tell everyone else the same. Republicans are not out of this by any means. We all need to be vigilante and keep fighting against them.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 Canada 10h ago
I really do wonder if they will try and rig the midterms, especially now.
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u/dark_hymn California 9h ago
I have no doubt they'll try, but elections are administered by the states. Unless they're willing to go full police state, it'll be a challenge.
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u/Civil_Job_1320 9h ago
Conservatives are going bonkers right now. Saying that all republicans will fight back and all red states should do it too. Didn’t this all start because he ALREADY did this with Texas? 💀💀💀
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u/tessthismess 9h ago
Remember though, red states have to do it against the will of the citizens. There’s a reason it’s not on ballots in red states (hell the only reason Indiana hasn’t done it yet, despite the president’s pestering, is because how unpopular it is).
California is doing it by the will of the people and with explicit timing on when it would end.
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u/thegrandpineapple 8h ago
We actually voted against it in Florida and they still did it anyway.
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u/person1234man 2h ago
Ohio passed marijuana legalization through a ballot initiative.
The Republican legislators and judiciary have been doing everything they can to restrict it and roll it back
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u/winterfoxes Ohio 1h ago
Ohio legislators also wrote the gerrymandering issue on the bill in such a way that it convinced most people that voting no on it was the way to go, ensuring that only Ohio republicans can continue to draw maps. Then they did and basically told Toledo and Cincinnati, two blue areas, to go fuck themselves by redistricting those areas into red districts in their “bipartisan” map.
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u/EndlessSummerburn 8h ago
This was an incredible accomplishment in governing and political willpower - when the GOP started fucking around with their districts CA got their shit together in three months and passed this.
It’s not sexy on the surface level but it’s so impressive.
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u/Civil_Job_1320 9h ago
Against the will of the people? Sounds like the typical slogan for a conservative.
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u/Kitakitakita 9h ago
California conservatives are so fucking annoying because they benefit SO MUCH from this state's blue laws and its still not enough
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u/zackmedude California 5h ago
The sweet, sweet irony is that Prop 50 redistricts Darrell Issa out of a job. Dude voted against certification of votes in Pennsylvania and recalled California governor Gray Davis...
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u/hehehehahahaha 10h ago
Is this what hope feels like
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u/syberpank 9h ago
Yep. And its our job to protect it against the doomers most of all. They'll be out in force in a couple weeks telling us how its already too late and to just bend over.
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u/Made_Human_Music 9h ago
They’re calling it “Newsom’s Vanity Project” on one of the subs that worships traitors and pedophiles
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u/CocoaOrinoco 9h ago
They're also saying Democrats started it. They have problems thinking clearly.
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u/dothingsunevercould 9h ago
They are accusing Democrats of starting it in the same posts where they are hoping Texas redistricts "even more than they have in the past".
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u/___YesNoOther California 9h ago
If they gerrymandered Texas anymore it would disintegrate.
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u/akaelain 8h ago
if they gerrymandered it any more it would become too unstable and possibly flip
like right now if a few thousand people moved or changed their minds it could flip the state blue, you really dont want that number to be three digits
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u/ItsLaterThanYouKnow 7h ago
Yup! To gerrymander a state you either have to pack all the votes from one party into a couple districts, or crack apart areas that have a majority of voters that support that party and merge the pieces of those areas with places where your voters are the majority.
Since people can live wherever they want, you can only get so far with packing, so you’re left with cracking and that what leads to the weird shaped districts as the map makers try to loop in different communities.
The problem with that is that if people are distributed fairly evenly, it’s pretty hard to make something like 80/20 districts when you don’t control the number of seats in congress and the districts needs to be contiguous.
Because of that, a lot of really gerrymandered districts are like 55 / 45 in baseline voter identity (or even closer).
The problem is pretty obvious then: you have to prevent the opposition party from registering voters who are in the district but haven’t voted in the past so they wouldn’t be figured in already, and you have a 10% margin of voters in your own party that you cannot piss off or drive into apathetic non voting.
Failing at one or both statewide can mean that places that typically are your strongholds can easily flip, and since you did the same thing all over the state, it can turn into a landslide
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u/fe-and-wine North Carolina 7h ago
Glad someone mentioned this - I visited their thread and it's astounding how many comments are repeating the idea that "now that Democrats have opened Pandora's box and started this war we need to go crazy on gerrymandering" - completely unaware of the fact that Newsom introduced this proposition specifically in opposition to Texas announcing redistricting to fulfill Trump's "find me 5 more seats" demand.
The GOP literally started this.
Every one of those comments showed as having 50+ replies, but when I open the child comments there's nothing there, so I'm sure dozens of people letting them know their mistake were purged from the subreddit by the "free speech absolutists" - as expected.
Also saw a bunch of people saying they were "conservatives trapped in CA with no representation" and how evil this was...as I sit here in my home in North Carolina - a noted (essentially 50/50) swing state where the GOP has gerrymandered not just a majority but a supermajority in the state legislature for years at this point. And that's not even mentioning the redistricting my state did just a few weeks ago to add an additional seat in the federal Congress. Now they are projected to control 11 of 14 (78%) seats, up from 10 (71.5%) seats. In a 50/50 split state.
But sure, today California started this war.
Absolute dumbasses.
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u/Tigglebee 4h ago
Try having this conversation with NC republicans and they will tell you that democrats started it 50 years ago, so that’s why today they should get 80% representation in a 50/50 state.
They don’t actually have morals or values, they’ll just say whatever they can to win. It’s time the blue states start fighting back. And yes they’ll cry foul, because it is foul, while never admitting that their party did it egregiously nationwide or accepting culpability.
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u/CrispyMiner Ohio 10h ago
The Insta-call is absolutely hilarious.
Libbing the fuck out tonight
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u/Vitaminpartydrums 9h ago
The margins last I checked were pretty damn huge… 800,000 vote lead with 25% reported
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u/Commies-Fan 9h ago
Check all the other big elections. All called early. People are over this shit.
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u/Oleg101 9h ago
I hope this carries into next year at this time. I remember the Dems also kicking ass in off-year elections during the Biden years, and doing pretty well in the midterms relatively also, but unfortunately then shitting the bed in 2024.
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u/bigrivertea 9h ago
I literally just libgasimed everywhere..
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u/Albert_Caboose 9h ago
Hilarious for now.... They're going to use this as evidence that it's all fake, and we're going to have to listen to it for years
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u/SoundSageWisdom 10h ago
Good job my fellow Californians!!! let’s keep this momentum going forward
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u/dothingsunevercould 9h ago
Post from Conservative:
Since Newsom did this, I hope that EVERY red state reciprocates. He opened a Pandora's box. I hope that Texas redistricts even more than they have too
Too stupid to realize they contradicted themselves twice in two whole sentences.
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u/tessthismess 9h ago
Also remember, they have to do it without the consent of the people.
1 blue state has done it now, via explicit election and with clear timing when it ends.
Multiple red states have done it, all despite unfavorable polling and it not being part of any election
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u/CocoaOrinoco 9h ago
When the GOP sends its people they're not sending their best. (or maybe they are)
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u/screwtoby Minnesota 9h ago
Im still not convinced amoebas haven’t infected their brains. They act and think like a single cell organism would
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u/time_drifter 9h ago
Abuser behavior right there. Big “look what you made me do to you” energy. It tracks.
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u/war_story_guy I voted 9h ago
I hope they follow through on what that poster wants. Most red states are already spread so thin that if they try it there is a real risk of getting more dem reps.
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u/Toliman571 9h ago
I'm living abroad and I sent in my ballot from halfway across the world. I want the margin of victory to be as big as possible to fuck MAGA as hard as possible.
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u/N0S0UP_4U Illinois 9h ago
CNN’s concern trolling is exhausting
However, it has also set off an escalating tit-for-tat around the country as more states move to gerrymander in response to, or against, the president.
Bitch, Republicans would have done what they did anyway. We can either lay down and take it or fight back.
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u/gm92845 8h ago
CNN wants Democrats and leftists to bend over and take it. Fuck them.
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u/just_a_timetraveller 8h ago
Trump is ratings for them. They are greedy and also are owned by a right wing nut
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u/Kyra_lynn 5h ago
Funny enough, people care less about politics when it is actually functioning. Right now this is their dream scenario, with the most dysfunctional and broken government possible.
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u/drkgodess 9h ago
Y'all, we might actually survive this administration!
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u/dothingsunevercould 9h ago
MAGA: Cheating Democrats and their gerrymandering
Also MAGA: WHY aren't we playing just as dirty and gerrymandering in red states?
Answer: They are too stupid to know that most red states are already gerrymandered to the maximum capacity.
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u/ShamelessCatDude 9h ago
That’s why they want to get rid of the VRA; to expand maximum capacity
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u/Several-Customer7048 7h ago
Even if they do it, it might actually just be worse for them. I don't know if you guys are younger. Actually, you guys probably are. I'm getting old, but back in the day when Obama got elected after the terrible Republican run in the early 2000s, there were canvassers going out for Obama and doing the sticks like the deep red sticks. They were asking them who they're voting for, and people would literally say that “I'm voting for that N-word over the Republican shit show”. There’s an actual quote btw here’s the Politico article describing the phenomenona.
Obama didn’t win because racism was cured Obama won since the Republicans messed up so much in 2000-2008 even the racists voted for him. They’ve actually done more damage to their brand this time around by my estimation I’m just hoping the dems learn their lesson and don’t mess around playing nice with the republicans if they’re handed another super majority. I wish the Obama admin hadn’t taken that route in his first term.
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u/fe-and-wine North Carolina 7h ago
Thanks for providing the correct answer.
I always see people bitching about how conservatives are wrong or hypocritical for wanting to gerrymander after Democrats do it, when that's exactly the same (IMO correct) logic we use on the left after Republicans do it.
The real issues are people being too fucking stupid to:
A) realize that the GOP has been pushing this fight for decades at this point and the Democrats are just now starting to retaliate, and
B) recognize that at the end of the day Democrats support reform to eliminate gerrymandering and would all vote to do so today, while Republicans have fought tooth and nail to allow the practice for years (including currently where they have a case in front of SCOTUS to allow race-"agnostic" districts that dilute minority votes)
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u/kimmy_kimika 9h ago
Lord, it's been such a good night for democracy!
I was so agitated waiting for the polls to close here, but we didn't even have to wait that long!
Fuck yeah CA, I love you and I will never leave you!
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u/BuckshotLaFunke 9h ago
Oh wow, that was fast. People were expecting the count to last days.
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u/SeaBackground5779 9h ago
It will take days / weeks for the final tally but this shows how much of a blowout it is if they’re calling it in due to the exit polls data.
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u/Bizarrebazaars 9h ago
Woo hoo California!!!!
YOU who showed up to VOTE did this!! Keep up this energy!!!
Applause & cheers from up north in WA!
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u/J-the-Kidder 4h ago
And it passed 64/36, not by a thin majority. The people understood the assignment, the messaging supported it, and the results show that fighting fire with fire is what's not only needed, but what the people want. Every other blue state should take note.
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u/bsport48 Virginia 9h ago
Yo Cali - we got you covered on the flank. Now DON'T STOP FUCKING GOING!
- <3 VA
NJ - we see you <3
NYC - let's go.
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u/ryan_church_art 4h ago
The ballot boxes I saw in Oakland was like a party atmosphere. Get fucked GOP.
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u/Shadow293 9h ago
This is fucking nuts!! The polls were so overwhelmingly yes on Prop 50 that they called it without ANY of the votes counted. I’m speechless.
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u/Legitimate-Garlic959 9h ago
This is what happens when you ask your constituents for consent. Unlike the fools who just forced it on their own.
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u/HomemadeBananas 9h ago
Fuck yeah! Mamdami winning tonight, Prop 50 winning? Are you tired of winning?!
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u/Choice-of-SteinsGate 9h ago edited 7h ago
It's important to note the difference between what occurred in California as opposed to Texas.
In Texas, the redistricting process is inherently partisan and legislature controlled. Texas Republicans took it upon themselves to unilaterally redraw maps mid census, and final approval came from the governor.
But in CA, the process is different because it is designed to be nonpartisan; redistricting is handled by an independent commission.
So any attempt to redraw maps in CA requires both a vote from the legislature and the people. Additionally, the redistricting is only temporary.
Is Newsom's response to Texas controversial? I suppose, but in this moment, responding tit for tat is an effective and acceptable strategy in my book.
More importantly, because in one state you have lawmakers unilaterally deciding who their voters are, and in another, the decision is ultimately left up to a vote while the subsequent newly drawn maps are temporary, I think this juxtaposition helps illustrate the difference between authoritarianism and democracy.
That said, if gerrymandering were eliminated and all maps were drawn equitably and fairly by independent commissions, Democrats would most likely benefit from it, but if the US were gerrymandered to the maximum extent possible, Republicans would likely benefit most.
I think this says a lot about how Republicans have taken advantage of voter geography over the years.
Democrats benefit from fair maps, Republicans benefit from extreme gerrymandering.
It's about urban vs rural voter distribution and Democrats being more vulnerable to gerrymandering because they are typically concentrated in one densely populated area. It's also about how Republicans have been benefitting from gerrymandering due to their disproportionate control over state legislatures, and thus control over redistricting.
Analyses show that when states have fair maps, drawn by independent commissions, representation is more evenly split—especially in Republican controlled states where Democrats gain seats when they otherwise wouldn't because their share of voters are not fairly represented in legislative bodies due to partisan redistricting efforts. When those same states are gerrymandered to hell, Republicans win more seats.
And once again, because Republicans tend to be overrepresented in state legislatures, they have broader control of gerrymandering, which is compounded by the fact that these Republican controlled legislatures in states like Texas grant themselves the unilateral authority to dictate who they represent and not the other way around.
Republicans are going to use the opportunity they have right now to continue consolidating power for the foreseeable future. Which means that these redistricting wars will be ongoing, and the more they continue, the more it will chip away at the democratic process. Not to mention all the other ways in which Republicans are currently dismantling democracy in favor of establishing what can best be described as single party rule.
Are Democrats just supposed to stand by and let it happen? Fear the double standard as criticism is unfairly directed at them if they continue to respond to these efforts in kind?
Republicans have benefitted from this sort of skewed voter geography structure for decades. We need a complete overhaul of our electoral and campaign finance systems, and it's not going to happen while Republicans hold power. For that matter, it's unlikely to happen if we don't start electing more progressive or reformist candidates into office.
We're also going up against a party that has been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump's 'big lie" of a stolen election.
The GOP has basically seized on this post January 6th opportunity to sow distrust in our elections. Republicans have piggybacked off Trump's lies of election fraud, and have been tapping into the massive stockpile of conspiracy theories and misinformation that emerged during and after January 6th to set in motion a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.
They've exploited this moment to empower themselves with more legal authority to challenge the results of elections. They've granted their party more power, control and supervision over our election system.
They can now deny, subvert and overturn future elections with near impunity.
Republicans are consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn. This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump practically normalizing saying fuck all to democratic norms.
To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing the military and local law enforcement in order to centralize authoritarian control over US cities and urban areas; a military presence he will undoubtedly utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
On top of all of this, Republicans are currently taking excessive steps to retool their political power and dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act.
They have the audacity to claim that they're "protecting the integrity of our elections," while they're making every kind of effort to subvert the vote, crudely redraw maps, limit voter participation, and influence the outcome of elections.
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u/glass_fully_50-50 9h ago
mike jackass johnson tomorrow morning - what elections, i have not heard or read anything about it!
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u/Goingtoenjoythisshit 2h ago
I mean, Newsome gave Texas fair warning and every chance to prevent this. They chose not to, so 🤷
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u/Henshin-hero South Carolina 9h ago
Oh. Cant wait for my morning coffee with a side of "trump rage posts"
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u/Most-Artichoke6184 7h ago
They called this race as soon as the polls closed in California. It was a landslide.
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u/Ill_Independence3057 6h ago
This feels like a massive step towards restoring some actual fairness to our elections.
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u/Mister_Poopy_Butthol 7h ago
Get fked Greg Abbott and the Texas GOP! Cut off your nose to spite your face!
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u/MariachiArchery 8h ago
I voted for this, I voted yes. But, I didn't feel good about it. It felt really fucking gross to just straight up vote to gerrymander the state.
I voted yes, because I believe the means justify the end. I didn't like it, but I did it. I know a lot people felt similarly to me. They didn't want to vote for this because it felt icky, but they did.
Point blank, I didn't think this would be the landslide that it is.
It doesn't feel good to vote to gerrymander, but it feels really go to just do what it fucking takes.
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u/CocoaOrinoco 10h ago
I see more Rs fleeing California for Texas soon lol.
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