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U.S. court voids 3 Texas congressional districts

Per the court, Republicans intentionally drew district lines to water down Hispanic and Black representation. This was so blatant that SCOTUS will easily uphold the decision.

Court voids 3 Texas congressional districts

This nothing new in TX, how do you think the GOP keeps winning those TX rural counties, they need them, the big TX cities are not so Conservative. Hell, San Antonio has a couple Dem house members, thanks to the transplants moving in. I suspect the GOP wants to keep South TX red, anyway they can.
 
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This nothing new in TX, how do you think the GOP keeps winning those TX rural counties, they need them, the big TX cities are not so Conservative. Hell, San Antonio has a couple Dem house members, thanks to the transplants moving in. I suspect the GOP wants to keep South TX red, anyway they can.

So that is how the Republicans hold the Governorship and the Senate because of Gerrymandering? When are you and the rest of the left going to accept responsibility for your own failure to connect with the "Average Working Class" Americans? You have become the party of the Hollywood and rich liberal elite as evidenced by the reality that your candidates are multi millionaires who made their wealth off of public service, Clinton, Sanders, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer. They talk the talk but never walk the walk yet people like you always buy the rhetoric
 
So that is how the Republicans hold the Governorship and the Senate because of Gerrymandering? When are you and the rest of the left going to accept responsibility for your own failure to connect with the "Average Working Class" Americans? You have become the party of the Hollywood and rich liberal elite as evidenced by the reality that your candidates are multi millionaires who made their wealth off of public service, Clinton, Sanders, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer. They talk the talk but never walk the walk yet people like you always buy the rhetoric


BOTH parties are lead by the rich elite, your attempt to focus only on Dems is just another attempt at "whataboutism"

Top Ten Richest Members of this year's Congress
Rank... Name...... Party...................... State......... Net Worth ($ million)
1 Rep. Darrell Issa........ Republican California 254.65
2 Rep. Michael McCaul.... Republican Texas 107.61
3 Rep. John Delaney.... Democratic Maryland 91.68
4 Sen. Mark Warner..... Democratic Virginia 90.85
5 Rep. Jared Polis........ Democratic Colorado 90.81
6 Rep. David Trott....... Republican Michigan 73.52
7 Sen. Richard Blumenthal Democratic Connecticut 66.99
8 Sen. Dianne Feinstein Democratic California 52.78
9 Rep. Vern Buchanan Republican Florida 49.86
10 Rep. Diane Black.... Republican Tennessee 45.95
 
You mean the GOP?

Seems that is the case today or did you ignore the Trump Trip to Michigan meeting with the autoworkers, and the reception he got plus the jobs returning to the state and union ranks? Of course not, you are too busy worrying about Russian hacking, the Trump wiretapping claims, and how much he paid in taxes. The GOP does represent the middle/lower classes today in creating jobs which is what most people want. The only ones who want to live off the taxpayers are the socialists and people unable to compete in a private sector economy which ISN'T the American workers
 
Seems that is the case today or did you ignore the Trump Trip to Michigan meeting with the autoworkers, and the reception he got plus the jobs returning to the state and union ranks? Of course not, you are too busy worrying about Russian hacking, the Trump wiretapping claims, and how much he paid in taxes. The GOP does represent the middle/lower classes today in creating jobs which is what most people want. The only ones who want to live off the taxpayers are the socialists and people unable to compete in a private sector economy which ISN'T the American workers

Nonsense and little more than regurgitation of White House press releases. 'News' with as much connection to the real world as 90% of what the GOP claims about helping "working Americans" when in reality, almost every proposal, EO and bill promoted by the right does little more than provide greater incomes to the oligarchs who presently rule this nation.
 
Nonsense and little more than regurgitation of White House press releases. 'News' with as much connection to the real world as 90% of what the GOP claims about helping "working Americans" when in reality, almost every proposal, EO and bill promoted by the right does little more than provide greater incomes to the oligarchs who presently rule this nation.


Guess you missed Biden's comments

Joe Biden foresaw blue-collar voters slip from Democrat base - Washington Times

After Losing Middle-Class Workers, What Does The Democratic Party's Future Look Like? : NPR

Joe Biden admits the moment when he realized Hillary Clinton would lose to Trump – TheBlaze

What is it about liberalism that creates this kind of loyalty and total ignorance of reality. One of these days you are going to get it, the problem is it could be too late
 
Really? So the richest members of Congress aren't Democrats? Doesn't appear that reality is something you understand
Strange that you would respond with these words when you had earlier agreed with my post as shown by the quotes herein.

BOTH parties are lead by the rich elite, your attempt to focus only on Dems is just another attempt at "whataboutism"

Top Ten Richest Members of this year's Congress

Yes, that is true but you would never believe that in talking to the party who claims to represent the middle and lower classes.


Your Goggles of Truth are obviously causing selective blindness. Of the ten richest in Congress, FIVE are Dems and FIVE are Repubs. The richest person presently in Congress is Darrell Issa (R-CA), followed by Michael McCaul (R-TX). It does not appear that reality is something you are willing to accept in this matter.
 
Strange that you would respond with these words when you had earlier agreed with my post as shown by the quotes herein.




Your Goggles of Truth are obviously causing selective blindness. Of the ten richest in Congress, FIVE are Dems and FIVE are Repubs. The richest person presently in Congress is Darrell Issa (R-CA), followed by Michael McCaul (R-TX). It does not appear that reality is something you are willing to accept in this matter.

Obviously you meant the HOUSE, not Congress. The top richest people in CONGRESS are Democrats who do very well in public service being funded by the taxpayers and selling access. I figured out you don't understand civics therefore didn't know that Congress is the House and Senate. Now you have learned something today. I am happy to help
 
Strange that you would respond with these words when you had earlier agreed with my post as shown by the quotes herein.




Your Goggles of Truth are obviously causing selective blindness. Of the ten richest in Congress, FIVE are Dems and FIVE are Repubs. The richest person presently in Congress is Darrell Issa (R-CA), followed by Michael McCaul (R-TX). It does not appear that reality is something you are willing to accept in this matter.

Obviously you meant the HOUSE, not Congress. The top richest people in CONGRESS are Democrats who do very well in public service being funded by the taxpayers and selling access. I figured out you don't understand civics therefore didn't know that Congress is the House and Senate. Now you have learned something today. I am happy to help
 
Obviously you meant the HOUSE, not Congress. The top richest people in CONGRESS are Democrats who do very well in public service being funded by the taxpayers and selling access. I figured out you don't understand civics therefore didn't know that Congress is the House and Senate. Now you have learned something today. I am happy to help


Could someone please help Conservative for he is posting words with no connection to the comments he is supposedly responding to. How can one say that a person with a net worth of $52.78 million (Feinstein) is richer than a person with assets of $$254.65 million (Issa)?

post #137 "The richest person presently in Congress is Darrell Issa (R-CA), followed by Michael McCaul (R-TX). It does not appear that reality is something you are willing to accept in this matter."
 
Could someone please help Conservative for he is posting words with no connection to the comments he is supposedly responding to. How can one say that a person with a net worth of $52.78 million (Feinstein) is richer than a person with assets of $$254.65 million (Issa)?

post #137 "The richest person presently in Congress is Darrell Issa (R-CA), followed by Michael McCaul (R-TX). It does not appear that reality is something you are willing to accept in this matter."

I am going to show you how easy it is to admit you are wrong on any subject, yes, you are right Issa is the richest person in Congress and I was wrong, I apologize. Now what does that have to do with the thread topic or the fact that the Democrats abandoned the middle class in this last election. The rich liberal elites love to have the poor and middle class dependent and voting Democratic. That didn't happen in 2016 as they did vote on the Obama record and legacy for the Congress.
 
OK, I'll comment on topic -- Post #2 in this thread

Three judge federal panel rules (2-1) that 3 districts were racially gerrymandered



Other "redistricting" cases before the courts at this time involve Florida, Wisconsin, Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina.

Gerrymandering has over the years benefitted both parties; in our modern world with the aid of gifted computer programmers, why not set up logical districts?
This computer programmer solved gerrymandering in his spare time

This is the twenty-first century. How hard can it be to create an algorithm to draw legislative districts after each census? (. . .)

These programs and algorithms already exist. Brian Olson is a software engineer in Massachusetts who wrote a program to draw "optimally compact" equal-population congressional districts in each state, based on 2010 census data. Olson's algorithm draws districts that respect the boundaries of census blocks, which are the smallest geographic units used by the Census Bureau. This ensures that the district boundaries reflect actual neighborhoods and don't, say, cut an arbitrary line through somebody's house.

You can see for yourself how his boundaries look.
 
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