Hey Ted! What have I been telling you? Look what Salon wrote: Democrats can’t win the gerrymander war
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They have to win elections instead — and with reapportionment coming, that's about to get a lot harder
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/25/democrats-cant-win-the-gerrymander-wa
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Democrats are staring down a gerrymandering Armageddon, and don’t have a lot of good answers. But if they think this current moment is frightening, just wait until the coming reapportionment apocalypse.
Their current gerrymandering problem threatens their hopes of taking back control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms. Reapportionment could be much worse than that, potentially an existential threat that pushes them into a minority for another decade.
How leading Democrats address these two significant challenges will determine whether they can pry back control of Congress, state legislatures and even the White House. But as Republican gerrymanders threaten to metastasize uncontrollably across the national map, Democrats don’t seem to fully understand the math or the depth of their difficulties.
You're goddamned right they don't.
But they will...
Democrats will be a minority for anther decade, according to fucking Salon.com.
I told you that you should be thanking me for being the only motherfucker in the room that is telling you The Truth, Ted.
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Wow. What a wonderful article. I can't BELIEVE that it came from Salon.com.
It basically parroted every single reason that I've been listing off why Democrats are going to lose dozens of seats in the house in the mid-terms. And it did not shy away at all from saying so. It also made sure to make mention not only that the Senate appears out of Democrat's grasp for a very long time, just as I've been saying it is, but it even made mention TWICE of the almost certain scenario that SCOTUS will put an end to Democratic racial gerrymandering in plenty of time before midterms, and what that also means for the future of the Democratic Party and the House, just live I've been saying.
I really can't believe this was printed by Salon. My congratulations to David Daley for finally opening his eyes, as well as the editors that allowed him to even print this story there.
My congratulations as well to the Salon.com readers this morning for finally getting an article from Salon.com that isn't gaslighting them.
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I simply had to post the rest of it. I believe I cleaned up all the links to other articles and other garbage here. My apologies if one or two slipped through the cracks and you read a sentence that seems out of place.
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Any day now, Texas will enact a new congressional map that nets as many as five additional GOP seats. This brazen mid-decade power grab will enhance the Republicans’ slender, three-seat majority in the U.S. House — and it won’t stop there. Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Florida will go next, grabbing the GOP perhaps another six seats. Should Republicans decide to play serious hardball, they could remap North Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas and New Hampshire too.
Democrats have more limited options. In California, voters will be asked this fall to suspend the state’s independent redistricting commission and allow the legislature to enact a new map that adds five blue seats in retaliation for the Texas gerrymander. If voters approve — and that’s not guaranteed — the two maps would cancel each other out.
But what’s step two? The trouble for Democrats is they have nowhere else to target if Republicans keep on escalating. Blue-state governors are talking tough and insisting they are at war, but that rhetoric is no match for reality. Democrats simply control too few states, and they’ve pretty much maxed out the maps in the states where they hold trifecta power.
Blue-state governors are talking tough and insisting they are at war, but that rhetoric is no match for reality. Democrats control too few states, and they’ve maxed out the maps in the states where they hold trifecta power.
New York’s state constitution would prevent creating new congressional maps before the 2028 election. Illinois likely cannot carve out an additional Democratic seat in a map that already hands them 14 of 17 districts. State courts in Maryland have already blocked one Democratic map that would have eliminated the state’s lone red seat, creating an 8-0 wipeout. Oregon’s governor will not propose a new 6-0 map that would erase one GOP-friendly district.
So the arithmetic is stark, and it’s not on the Democrats’ side. That’s before the U.S. Supreme Court hears the Callais case in October and potentially overturns the last remnants of the Voting Rights Act, leading to the likely erasure of majority-minority seats currently held by Black Democrats in South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
So Democrats cannot realistically gerrymander their way out of their gerrymandering problem. If you’re wondering whether this blatant exercise of partisan political power is constitutional, the Supreme Court has already said yes, ruling that partisan gerrymandering is purely a political matter and not its problem. State courts, in many or most cases, are controlled by whichever party holds power.
In other words, Democrats are going to have to win elections. To win a congressional majority next year, they might need to run the board in a diminishing number of genuine swing districts across the nation — perhaps 16 or so. Politics and persuasion — on a shrinking map, and in difficult electoral environments like Iowa and Arizona — is the only option. That’s a big problem, given that no prominent Democrats seem to be acknowledging that openly, or indeed saying anything other than they’re ready to “fight fire with fire.”
But bigger trouble for Democrats lies ahead: The map is about to shrink even further. This is another reason why gerrymandering blue states is such a short-term plan — someday soon, there will be fewer of them. When the next congressional reapportionment happens after the 2030 census, red states stand to make huge gains. Florida and Texas, according to early estimates, could add an additional four seats each, perhaps five in Texas. The Brennan Center suggests that Idaho, Utah, Arizona and North Carolina would each gain a seat.
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Where you at, Ted?
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Now this one is hilarious... But it's a really good question they're asking that I didn't think of before, so it's good to know that some of their brains still work in ways that allow out of the box thinking. Democrats should listen to their chess players like Nate Silver and stop allowing white college "educated" Karens and DEI hire monkey dummies to make all the decisions and maybe they can right the ship.
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How will the Electoral College look in 2032?
A buzzy study predicts a rightward shift. What do you think?
Halina Bennet
Aug 26, 2025
My timeline is full of takes on the New York Times article “How the Electoral College Could Tilt Further From Democrats,” published on Sunday. People are discussing everything from the study’s methodology to reasons for the tilt to corrective strategies for Democrats.
The main conversation I’m seeing (definitely because of my algorithm) is about the failure of blue states to build dense, affordable housing, causing them to lose votes.
On top of all the other reasons why Democrats are set to lose 20 to 50 house seats before midterms, they're completely unable to build any housing because they let their Leftist Retard Activists over the last few decades made it IMPOSSIBLE to build.
Oh... and don't forget the rich white Liberals and their HOA's who also added to this because they don't want any Rif-Raf in their own back yard. They just want equality among the poor by removing the middle class so we can all be sucking on the government tit while they live the high life in their gated communities, far away from any housing projects or apartment complexes.
You just can't hate Democrats enough.
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Oh...
And really though. Don't bother building more houses or you're just going to have a bunch of empty houses driving everyone's home prices way down with a glut of supply in the market once we get rid of tens of millions of Illegal Alien Invaders and VISA holders.
There's really only around 270 Million actual Citizens living here out of the 330 Million people. Once we get rid of 60 million people who don't belong here, there will be no shortage of housing.
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New York Times: How the Electoral College Could Tilt Further From Democrats
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The year is 2032. Studying the Electoral College map, a Democratic presidential candidate can no longer plan to sweep New Hampshire, Minnesota and the “blue wall” battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and win the White House. A victory in the swing state of Nevada would not help, either.
That is the nightmare scenario many Democratic Party insiders see playing out if current U.S. population projections hold. After every decennial census, like the one coming up in 2030, congressional seats are reallocated among the states based on population shifts. Those seats in turn affect how big a prize each state is within the Electoral College — or how a candidate actually wins the presidency.
In the next decade, the Electoral College will tilt significantly away from Democrats.
Deeply conservative Texas and Florida could gain a total of five congressional seats, and the red states of Utah and Idaho are each expected to add a seat.
Those gains will come at the expense of major Democratic states like New York and California, according to a New York Times analysis of population projections by Esri, a nonpartisan company whose mapping software and demographic data are widely used by businesses and governments across the world.
Across all of the possible scenarios in the nine states that would be considered battlegrounds in the 2032 election, Democrats would see about a third of their current winning Electoral College combinations disappear if population projections hold. However, when looking only at the most feasible winning combinations based on voting behaviors in the 2024 election, the outlook is far worse. Of Democrats’ 25 most plausible paths to victory in 2024, only five would remain.
Some groups have arrived at an even more challenging outlook for Democrats in 2032. For example, the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan organization, projected Republicans to have three more safe seats from Texas and Florida, and New York to lose one more seat than The Times’s projection.
The Democratic Party already faces acute challenges after its disastrous losses in 2024, including fundraising woes, an electorate that slid decidedly to the right, a vacuum of leadership and a sharp decline in voter registrations.
The party is also battling President Trump’s push for red states to redraw their congressional maps in the middle of the decade in order to secure Republicans an advantage in next year’s midterm elections. While this does not directly affect a future Electoral College, it adds urgency for Democrats to expand into new areas.
The dire post-census projections put the party in a bind between two necessary tasks: investing to win in the short term, including in the midterms, and building a future in states that have not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in decades.
Still, the looming Electoral College shift presents such an existential threat to the party that many Democrats, including the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, are adamant that planning for the next decade must begin now.
“There’s no doubt about it, and it’s a lot of what I talked about when I ran for chair,” Ken Martin, the D.N.C. leader, said in an interview. He added, “We have to acknowledge that there's some of these states that are red that are going to need more resources to essentially help us win down the road.”
Red states are growing fast, and blue states aren’t keeping up
Rapid growth in Southern and Western red states is driving the changes to the political map, according to The Times’s analysis. Texas and Florida are each expected to gain millions of residents in the coming years, expanding each state’s population by nearly 13 percent, according to Esri.
The fastest growing Democratic state, Colorado, will expand its population by less than 10 percent. New York and Illinois are both expected to shrink by 2030, and California’s population will essentially stay the same.
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NYT: Another New 'Nightmare Scenario' Is Unfolding for Democrats
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2025/08/27/nyt-new-nightmare-s
cenario-awaits-democrats-n2662317
Are Republicans Poised for Period of Extended Dominance?
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/are-republicans-poised-for-period-of
-extended-dominance/
SPOILER ALERT: Yes. Yes they are.
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Hey dummies.
Are you two starting to get it yet? Do you get it? Do you get get get it?
This isn't a joke. This isn't just 6ixStringJack, the totem for all of your hate telling you things you don't want to hear anymore.
This is the entire Legacy Media now coming out and telling you that I was right about what is happening and what has been happening all along.
And if they're admitting THIS much, how bad is it REALLY?
You both could have stopped it. But you didn't have it in you. You were too addicted to the hate and rage and the lying Legacy Media's lies.
It's too late now. The Democratic Party cannot be saved. It's dead and you helped kill it off. Not because you sat back and did nothing, but because you were obedient online soldiers regurgitating headlines and soundbytes to all of the other mindless obedient online solders who were all doing the same and just being awful to everyone else while stroking each others hate boners and giving each other dopamine hits on social media.
Give yourselves a good pat on the back. You've lost everything now. More than I would have ever imagined possible. And it couldn't have been done without you.
So you both go around screaming that me and anybody else you don't like are evil and racist and whatever buzzwords you morons like to use until you're blue in the face. The People are immune to that now. It doesn't work anymore. Everybody sees right through it, and it's why even some heads of the Democratic Party itself have come together to make lists of words you have all been brainwashed into chanting repeatedly for years by the media, but now they want you to stop using them because it just makes your party look worse every time you let one slip from your bottomless wells of hatred and anger.
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Even crazy-haired Black Supremacist Ellie Mystal knows you guys fucked up.
How Democrats Flubbed the Gerrymandering Arms Race
New York State is a case study in Democrats’ failure to understand the evolving political landscape.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/how-democrats-flubbed-gerry
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Sure... He's whining like a little bitch, throwing out insults the entire article and just making stuff up out of thin air, but the bottom line is he knows that you guys started shit that you can't ever possibly win. The only thing he really gets here is that you guys have nowhere else to turn to add more Democratic seats because you've already gerrymandered the hell out of the big blue states and can't possibly eek out any more Democratic votes.
And he's not even making any mention of why you guys are really going to be hemorrhaging seats in the house in the mid-terms. We're removing illegals from the census and from Federal Funding. SCOTUS will rule against Democratic racial gerrymandering and it will reverse decades of Democrats fixing elections with their insane district maps. We're getting rid of mail-in fraud voting. We're getting rid of drop boxes. We might even institute Picture ID requirements on a federal level.
Not to mention that Democrats haven't been able to get more than 30% approval on any poll in the last 5 months.
You're about to lose anywhere from 20 to 50 house seats in 2028.
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