Jerry meandering

[davesaddiction]

Interesting read/analysis:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-house-maps-republican-bias-will-plummet-in-2022-because-of-gerrymandering/

Both parties continue their work of making the seats they have "sure things".

2022 will be hotly contested, both House and Senate.

Here are the states that will likely determine who has control of the latter:

(from 270ToWin)

[ForSweden]

Politicians drawing maps draw maps beneficial for incumbents

[Qaaaaa]

@davesaddiction First figure is pretty important. Who'd've thought that having strongly partisan committees making districts would result in the only two parties that effectively exist in gov't dividing the country up between themselves?

[fintail]

@davesaddiction such wacky garbage, time for a more popular vote.

[davesaddiction]

@fintail

Don't see that actually happening any time soon.

[fintail]

@davesaddiction yep. We'll keep doing what we've done and getting what we've got.

[davesaddiction]

@fintail

[weeps]

[nickhasanexocet]

@davesaddiction Nevada is going to be a battle.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/democrats-gamble-with-their-nevada-gerrymander/

[davesaddiction]

@nickhasanexocet

Glad I don’t live there!

Political campaign season is relentless.

[Roadkilled]

@davesaddiction

One idea comes from BDistricting.
https://bdistricting.com/about.html

Use a formula that makes districts as compact as possible without splitting zip codes. It takes politicians out of the picture. After each census, feed the new data into the formula and get your new districts. States like Pennsylvania go from a crazy gerrymandered map to something much simpler.

[davesaddiction]

@Roadkilled

It needs to be a computerized, agreed-upon formula, for sure.