Gerrymandering

[93henfan]

Go kill yourself please.

Geez.

I said I was joking God damn it, you fucking Nazi.

[93henfan]

I was just joking about you being a Nazi. Don't kill yourself.

[Grizalltheway]

I was just joking about you being a Nazi. Don't kill yourself.

You'll notice I replied before you added the joking part. Now, go OD on coke, Billy Mays.

[93henfan]

I was just joking about you being a Nazi. Don't kill yourself.

You'll notice I replied before you added the joking part. Now, go OD on coke, Billy Mays.

I hope you're only joking.

[grizzaholic]

One district.

The other elephant in the room is that Iowa only has white people, so there's no reason to gerrymander. They just divide it up into the white people in that corner, the white people in that corner, etc...

That is racists

[Grizalltheway]

You'll notice I replied before you added the joking part. Now, go OD on coke, Billy Mays.

I hope you're only joking.

Hope in one hand, shit in the other...

[grizzaholic]

So long as a close African-American shipmate and friend of mine lives in Iowa, I will object to that racist trash.

Go kill yourself please.

MODS. This is a blatant personal attack and will not be tolerated under the current TOS. I vote for this poster, and all of his alias' to be band.

[93henfan]

The other elephant in the room is that Iowa only has white people, so there's no reason to gerrymander. They just divide it up into the white people in that corner, the white people in that corner, etc...

That is racists

Shut up cracker.

[93henfan]

Go kill yourself please.

MODS. This is a blatant personal attack and will not be tolerated under the current TOS. I vote for this poster, and all of his alias' to be band.

[grizzaholic]

MODS. This is a blatant personal attack and will not be tolerated under the current TOS. I vote for this poster, and all of his alias' to be band.

Do you have some sand in your china today, or what?



Side Note: She is every bit of age.

[UNI88]

Iowa ...

Letting the computer draw the political map
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_co ... /iowa.html

Congressional and legislative maps are drawn by non-partisan state employees armed with a computer. No consideration can be given to incumbency or political leanings of voters. The maps are presented to the legislature, which can approve them or reject them, but cannot change them.

[Pwns]

I propose a rule...you can't create a district if you can draw a line that goes in and out of it more than twice.

[89Hen]

So long as a close African-American shipmate and friend of mine lives in Iowa, I will object to that racist trash.

You just called all of Iowa racist trash?

[grizzaholic]

So long as a close African-American shipmate and friend of mine lives in Iowa, I will object to that racist trash.

You just called all of Iowa racist trash?

I think he was talking about all posts that come from Iowa, racist trash.

[CAA Flagship]

You just called all of Iowa racist trash?

I think he was talking about all posts that come from Iowa, racist trash.

No, I think it is pretty clear. He is calling a certain African American racist trash. And as long as this certain African American lives in Iowa, SH will object to said shipmate.

I guess one can surmise that person were to move out of Iowa, SH would no longer object to the racist trash that is his close African American shipmate.

So the question is, what does SH have against Iowa?

[89Hen]

I think he was talking about all posts that come from Iowa, racist trash.

No, I think it is pretty clear. He is calling a certain African American racist trash. And as long as this certain African American lives in Iowa, SH will object to said shipmate.

I guess one can surmise that person were to move out of Iowa, SH would no longer object to the racist trash that is his close African American shipmate.

So the question is, what does SH have against Iowa?

Or African American shipmates?

[Ibanez]

So long as a close African-American shipmate and friend of mine lives in Iowa, I will object to that racist trash.

Go kill yourself please.

93! THIS IS HOGWASH. HOGWASH! I CLOSE FRIEND OF MY COUSINS BROTHERS, SISTER IN LAW DROVE THROUGH IOWA AND SAW A "NEGRO".

[Ibanez]

thE TRUTH COMES OUT! THEY IS A RACISTS, WOMAN LOVING PEDOBEAR!

[CAA Flagship]

Pass the ear plugs please.

[Ibanez]

Pass the ear plugs please.

Sorry, I just had a hearing test.


I'm deaf.

or "death" to our African-American Iowans.

[grizzaholic]

This thread took a disturbing turn.

[CAA Flagship]

This thread took a disturbing turn.

THIS thread did? As opposed to almost all other threads?

[Ibanez]

This thread took a disturbing turn.

Shut your cock holster, shit splitter.

[BDKJMU]

I thought the PA 7th district was bad:



The MD 3rd district makes it look normal.

Yep, I live in the PA 7th. The shape of it is f'ing ridiculous.

[UNI88]

Jesse and gerrymandering
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... 3895.story

To the humiliation that Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi, imposed on Illinois, you can add a political indictment: This state's egregious gerrymandering aided and abetted the Jacksons' long crime spree. If Jackson had been running for office in a competitive district — rather than in one of the nation's most overwhelmingly Democratic — the couple arguably would have had to spend campaign funds on needs more urgent than Build-a-Bear toy animals, what the feds delicately call Costco "undergarments" and the goofy mounted elk heads.

No, gerrymandering didn't drive the ex-congressman to a life of crime. Gerrymandering did, though, enable it. With no viable opposition, he had little need to buy expensive TV time — and, to be frank, he had fewer pesky journalists going line by line through his campaign finance reports. More scrutiny might have detected questionable spending patterns.

The corrupt if legal packing of congressional (and state legislative) districts to make them safe for either major party is an Illinois problem and a national problem. The political research website Ballotpedia reports that only 14.5 percent of all U.S. House races, or 63 of 435, were decided by 10 percentage points or less in 2012: The average Democratic victory margin was 35.7 percent; the Republican average was 28.6 percent.

Only 63 of 435 House races were even marginally competitive? Where's TTBF to argue why gerrymandering is a good thing?