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southdenverhoo

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Take a look at the Maryland map in Wikipedia and tell me it’s gerrymandered


for one thing, it inefficiently ( for gerrymandering purposes) creates 3 very Democratic districts and one Democrat +2 district that could easily be 4 Democrat double digit districts.

Secondly, the Eastern Shore makes a district unified by common interests and geographically compact as does the Western Maryland district. The northern suburban Baltimore district, the one that’s Dem +2, also has a logical commonality and is geographically compact.

I don’t know, but to me there is no comparison between MD and NC, when it comes to gerrymander.

To me Maryland is like Iowa. The congressional representation is not proportional to statewide vote but it’s hard to claim that that is due to some unfairness in the drawing of the districts. People in the minority party just happen to be distributed, geographically, in a politically inefficient fashion.


(In response to this post by walkthecorner)

Posted: 10/26/2023 at 3:51PM



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