Amber G. wrote: ↑12 Dec 2025 08:11
Meanwhile - Despite Trump's threats, the Indiana State Senate has REJECTED the Trump-backed 9-0 gerrymandered map, leaving the existing 7-2 map in place.
This is because gerrymandering is a two-way street.
Say for example you have a total of 15 districts in which 4 are strongly leaning democrat and 11 are strongly leaning republican.
"Gerrymandering" means redrawing the boundaries of districts, to sometimes absurd extents, to achieve a greater number of districts that are statistically likely to vote for a member of your own party. So let's say in the example the republicans gerrymander the above 15 districts to leave only 2 leaning democrat.
It is not possible to do this without incorporating democrat-leaning populations into some of the 13 newly proposed districts which you expect to lean republican.
That means that the 13 new districts will not be AS solidly republican-leaning as compared to the previous 11.
This is not a welcome development for local politicians who were accustomed to having 'safe' seats-- they previously had good equations and 'settings' with their constituents, but all of a sudden they have to work on a whole new constituency.
And at a time when the economy is in the toilet and the democrats are winning everywhere, it is enough to send the local republican politicians into panic mode.
The posts about Netanyahu ealier had that, and even for earlier tweets with Trump. 