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Grimalkin Wyrd @grimalkinwyrd.bsky.social

Yep. We spent a lot of time prosecuting Trump when we should have been impeaching some SCOTUS members...

aug 30, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0

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Grimalkin Wyrd @grimalkinwyrd.bsky.social

People keep pointing out the gerrymandering, ignoring that their state governments are red too. I live in Ohio, and people keep telling me that the state is really blue. Yet, I can't remember the last time we had a Democratic Gov. Vance and Moreno won statewide elections.

aug 30, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Merete Von DOE 🇩🇰 @meretevondoe.bsky.social

Well, the gerrymandering affects both presidential elections and more local results.

aug 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Grimalkin Wyrd @grimalkinwyrd.bsky.social

Gerrymandering doesn't affect the Presidential elections. Each state gets electoral votes based on the number of Congressional + 2 for the Senators. Nothing to do with gerrymandering.

aug 31, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Merete Von DOE 🇩🇰 @meretevondoe.bsky.social

Okay

aug 31, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Merete Von DOE 🇩🇰 @meretevondoe.bsky.social

Gerrymandering changes the voting districts, which scews the overall election results.

Illustration of how gerrymandering can give the opposite results of what the majority of the voters want by changing the voting districts.
aug 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Grimalkin Wyrd @grimalkinwyrd.bsky.social

It does, but the statewide elections return consistent red results. Hence, the examples of the Governor and US Senator. If the blue majority of voters were truly blue, or even if it was close to 50/50, you would expect a blue governor more than once every 30 years. See it now?

aug 30, 2025, 7:04 pm • 1 0 • view