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@NathanJRobinson
one of the things I don't understand about redistricting is: Okay, so the right "rigs" districts. But why don't you just try to persuade the voters in those districts to vote for you? If Democrats had a winning message no amount of gerrymandering could stop them.
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@NathanJRobinson
a thing Democrats often do is go "oh that's a Republican district we'll never win" and then it's a self-fulfilling prophecy where they don't even try to win:
Ghost Candidates Are Not Acceptable
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@alexbirnel
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@NathanJRobinson
not defending republican disenfranchisement, criticizing the foregone conclusion that the Red areas are unwinnable because they're full of the Red people
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@hellodonavon
Were you born yesterday?
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@TrueSlazac
What do you think of MGP and Jared Golden
7/37
@ryxcommar
A lot of people are persuaded by bad things.
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@johnholowach
Nathan, have you suffered a head injury of late?
9/37
@SparkdaPhilly
Go ahead and clock out for me
10/37
@the_ason
I live how yall think they're some magical message that get lifelong Republicans to suddenly vote democrat
11/37
@TruthfulBurns
Brother, this is the type of analysis that someone suffering a stroke might produce.
12/37
@mcbyrne
Have you ever worked on a campaign?
13/37
@LePinkprint
Same energy
14/37
@AngelliAngelo
Just get rid of districts. They are not required, two states don’t have, and they are nothing but mechanism for minority disenfranchisement
15/37
@trouble_man90
The far left has never in history won a republican district
16/37
@PellicciottaRj
What I don’t understand about performance enhancing drugs in athletic competitions is why the athletes not on them don’t just train harder? If the athlete was talented and disciplined enough no one would ever beat them.
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@jxcxbrxss
You would undoubtedly spend all of your time villifying democrats who were trying to run in red districts.
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@fightinbobbyl
indeed, a surefire winner of a strategy would be to persuade deeply conservative white evangelicals in R+40 districts in the Deep South to vote for a Democrat by running further to the left, this is tactical genius on display
19/37
@AlbaneseJoe
fukking idiot
20/37
@emnode
If you really believe this, then why don't leftmost progressives and socialists just go do it. You would earn all of our respect. Stop pissing on mainstream Democrats and show us how it's done
21/37
@Mr_Correckt
Then why don't socialist run a candidate out there and show us how it's done?
22/37
@frontporchfiles
Wait is this a satire account? This can’t be a real question. Right? Gerrymandering isn’t about persuading voters it’s about drawing districts so that persuasion doesn’t matter. You could win 60% of the vote statewide and still lose the legislature. That’s the whole point of the rig. Your question is like asking a person in a wheelchair why they can’t just use their legs and stand up.
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@jgoodloejapan
It's not a Party, it's a cult.
24/37
@jumper42
“The right”
You can’t say this and not mention the gerrymandering going on in many blue states.
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@crazy_stephen_i
You find the voters who are already persuaded. And you segment minority blocks of people yet to be persuaded with majority blocks of people already persuaded to vote for you (persuaded that it is a fight for their country, a fight between good and evil, not about the best argument of the day).
Either that or you draw one district around people who are able to be persuaded and chop up non-persuadable districts into many.
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@Oppo__Research
"no let's outsource it to elena kagan."
i fukking cannot stand the gerrymandering-is-the-issue people because they are in every instance some version of the abundance people, "liberals" e.g. corporate military authoritarians who want law and corporatism to substitute for politics and liberties.
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@goatpurple1
"so the right "rigs" districts"
both sides rig districts. Indeed those of woke persuasion rig gerrymander to make minority districts.
Why not persuade people in the rigged districts? Parties persuade as much as they can, but gerrymandering gives you way of getting more reps per vote.
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@worldteacherman
Most U.S. voters (75%) consistently support the same party every election. Only about 15% are truly persuadable swing voters. The rest tend to sit out.
This pattern has held steady for decades. Therefore, it’s more effective to cheat.
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@ChrisLitzner85
If Republicans had a winning message they wouldn't need to gerrymander to keep power
30/37
@DanRu0419
Are you Brent Musburger’s son?
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@EvidenceBaseShi
Did a child write this
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@SharpEyedMe
I might have thought this when I was in High School.
33/37
@adamnvillani
How successful have you been at convincing the American public to vote for socialists?
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@menschivik
samuel alito:
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@_kxdyn
you literally despise the people who actually do what is necessary to accomplish that
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@_kxdyn
have you ever gotten to know a single rural person in your entire life, man
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@Mirs_____
nathan this is "We Go High"ism at its worst. Dems need to *both* gerrymander and have good messaging. They are not mutually exclusive
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