Gavin Newsom faces a major hurdle in his quest to revamp California's congressional lines, according to a new poll. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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The latest in redistricting news: President’s aggressive redistricting push is sparking public concern from an unusual mix of Republicans.
aug 14, 2025, 3:17 pm • 47 11 • view
Odd that you led with the Newsom article and not this one.
aug 14, 2025, 3:30 pm • 3 0 • view
maybe if he wanted to keep his majority he wouldn't be doing so many unpopular things.
aug 14, 2025, 3:33 pm • 2 0 • view
you’re so principled about that you’ll get a single party authoritarian government that caters to wealthy elites. Proud of ya!
aug 14, 2025, 4:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Ummm what?
aug 14, 2025, 4:54 pm • 2 0 • view
i can’t help you. i recommend you do not vote.
aug 14, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you a bot? I don’t even understand what you’re talking about. Who do you think I’m being critical of?
aug 14, 2025, 5:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Not a bot. I can’t improve your intelligence so that you understand. Your comment was critical of Newsom, mentioning the maintenance of a majority which is not threatened. He’s going to redistrict in order to GAIN seats to thwart GOP corruption. 🔥 with 🔥. Now scoot!
aug 14, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t think you understood, he was being critical of Trump. He’s afraid of losing his majority in Congress…that’s why he’s demanding Tx find him more seats.
aug 14, 2025, 5:15 pm • 3 0 • view
🐓
aug 14, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 14, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
My comment was critical of Trump. I agree with what Newsom is doing. I was saying that if Trump wants to win the house in 26 he should do things that are popular instead of resorting to rigging the districts
aug 14, 2025, 5:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Now you scoot and learn to read
aug 14, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
thos is going to pass in a landslide
aug 14, 2025, 3:57 pm • 2 0 • view
The people of California voted to put in a commission and they’re gonna have to have the people of California vote to change that and we do not know what the outcome of that vote will be
aug 14, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Redistricting is essentially taking representation away from people I don’t agree with this Texas, California other states And no, I do not have any idea how to deal with with the GOP and Trump are up to Should not have been elected in the first place The GOP 100% responsible for Donald
aug 14, 2025, 3:20 pm • 15 3 • view
You are what is wrong at this moment. YOU FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
aug 15, 2025, 11:42 am • 1 0 • view
Absolutely we should step up and play by the same “rules” they continue to make up.
aug 20, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
Republican are overrepresented too begin with then they cheat. This levels the field. Otherwise it's fascist government
aug 14, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
CA MUST COUNTERACT THIS BLATANT MID-DECADE CHEATING. WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR SUGGESTION, JUST LET MAGA ROLL OVER DEMOCRACY???
aug 14, 2025, 4:13 pm • 6 1 • view
TX is cheating, we tried to play fair and must counteract.
aug 14, 2025, 4:08 pm • 6 0 • view
What part of this do you not understand??
aug 14, 2025, 4:11 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re expecting us to play fair against a team that is being allowed to cheat.
aug 14, 2025, 3:36 pm • 138 4 • view
you want us to give that power to Newsom so he can kill trans people and the homeless and protestors
aug 14, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
What part of redistricting does that?
aug 15, 2025, 5:04 am • 0 0 • view
It doesn’t go to Newsome, it goes to the state legislature…
aug 15, 2025, 3:33 am • 0 0 • view
The more we say you’re all the same the more you prove it with your reaction.
aug 14, 2025, 5:11 pm • 1 0 • view
CA: 38% Republican, only 9 of 52 seats (20.9%) IL: 44% Republican, only 3 of 17 seats (17.6%) NY: 43% Republican, only 7 of 26 seats (26.9%) MD: 34% Republican, only 1 of 8 seats (12.5%) NJ: 46% Republican, only 3 of 12 seats (25%) OR: 41% Republican, only 1 of 6 seats (16.7%) Seems fair
aug 14, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Now do red states…
aug 15, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
Again, you’re just reading things into stuff I did it right I mentioned how uncomfortable I am with taking away representation from people because other people in another state are taking other people’s representation trying to take away all of our representation This is complicated
aug 14, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
why would anyone to give that power to another transphobe who also wants to mass arrest/deport homeless
aug 14, 2025, 3:40 pm • 9 0 • view
False narrative
aug 14, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
We will never have a candidate who checks all the boxes. If they support rights for every human being I can get behind them.
aug 14, 2025, 6:55 pm • 2 0 • view
The power goes to the state legislature not the governor…
aug 15, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
enjoy decades of Republican supermajorities and a democracy that looks a lot like Russia.
aug 14, 2025, 3:46 pm • 41 1 • view
we can stop republicans and also protect our vulnerable; trans, lgbtq, homeless, immigrants this is not a trolley problem
aug 14, 2025, 4:25 pm • 6 0 • view
We can’t allow millions to come in like Biden. It is not good for anyone.
aug 14, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Then advise for changing the asylum policy Trump didn’t do that last time, hasn’t done it yet this time and he stopped the Republicans from voting to do so because he was running on immigration Cherry farmers can’t any one to pick cherries only a few people did the self picking
aug 14, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
we literally can
aug 14, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Read beyond the sensational headlines. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
aug 14, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Good luck with all that. You're not doing shit without taking seats away from fascist Republicans
aug 14, 2025, 5:51 pm • 21 1 • view
Yeah, I’ll just watch how much you accomplish by you know being unpleasant And you’re assuming a position for myself that I don’t think you have any right to assume
aug 14, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
How'd being pleasant to Republicans work for the Kamala bee hive? Got your ass kicked by Trump again and didn't learn anything. Time to fight back and play dirty like they have been for decades.
aug 14, 2025, 6:34 pm • 8 0 • view
I will never vote Gavin Newsom again but I support democratic redistricting
aug 14, 2025, 5:09 pm • 2 0 • view
we dont need gavin's permission to resist this regime either
aug 14, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok so let's redistrict the state?
aug 14, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
In California, we have to take a vote to overthrow the commission we set up which resulted in competitive races Tragedy we can’t have everybody join us and having competition for political office based on ideas not geography
aug 14, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
It is a tragedy. But Democrats need to take power in order to do anything and republicans aren’t going to cooperate to change this unless the status quo hurts them too. We’re past the point where idealism is effective.
aug 15, 2025, 4:43 am • 1 0 • view
Sad indeed but it is no longer a democracy, it is a soft civil war
aug 14, 2025, 6:19 pm • 3 0 • view
So you’re fine to let the GOP do it in red states while blue states “play by the rules” and get bent over. I don’t support gerrymandering either. But you can’t play by the rules and expect results when the other side throws the rulebook in the trash.
aug 14, 2025, 5:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh please, what do you think Republicans have been doing and are going to do more of in Texas. I agree with redistricting! All the blue states should do it! I’m sick and tired of Republicans crying and whining when it’s being done to them but okay with them doing it!
aug 15, 2025, 6:26 am • 0 0 • view
You are dangerously naive like pacifists in the thirties. Evil needs to be defeated nomatter the tactics. Democrats who believe as you do just need to shut up!
aug 14, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
so Democrats have to play by the rules that no longer exists but Republicans are free to invent dozens of congressional seats ensuring that they will have majorities for the coming decades.
aug 14, 2025, 3:45 pm • 8 0 • view
This is deceptive. Most Democratic voters DO back an independent panel. But given that Republicans are cheating to gain an advantage, most of those same voters support playing by the rules Republicans have set. I'm sure that was never an option in the poll.
aug 14, 2025, 2:16 pm • 87 5 • view
Exactly!
aug 14, 2025, 2:26 pm • 10 0 • view
I believe that the answers to poll questions depend on the questions themselves and I agree, you're correct.
aug 14, 2025, 2:29 pm • 1 0 • view
And this act is transparent in saying, this is a *temporary measure*. It makes sure that independent redistricting committees will still matter in 5 years.
aug 15, 2025, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Ca. will vote for this once it is make very clear that this is to OFFSET gerrymandering in Texas, to prevent republicans from gaining seats in Congress through cheating. The messaging will be clear that it is a balancing response.
aug 14, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
You sound scared Politico. Your daddy is going to jail and you would have bent a knee for nothing.
aug 14, 2025, 2:13 pm • 7 0 • view
He just needs to sell it more and it will pass
aug 14, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Who did they poll? Republicans? SORRY DON’T BELIEVE THIS
aug 15, 2025, 11:42 am • 3 0 • view
Facts matter, not opinions.
aug 14, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
You should have asked me. I’m a democrat and I’m in full support of redistricting. So is everyone else I know.
aug 14, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Politico Pablum! CA voters back the redistricting and will say so in the necessary upcoming voter referendum.
aug 14, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Why it is not the same in Texas so 🤷♀️ I don’t understand???
aug 14, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Gavin do it anyway ! NOW
aug 14, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
CA voters back neutering Greg Abbott. Fixed it for ya.
aug 14, 2025, 3:44 pm • 2 0 • view
I be they hate this current regime waaaay more. I’d put money on it.
aug 14, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Fighting back is what Gavin Newsom is doing and we are here for it.
aug 14, 2025, 2:59 pm • 4 0 • view
C’mon CA, this is so easy, font fuck it up based on your individual purity standards.
aug 14, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico making up shit now! He won’t have an issue getting support statewide to eliminate Republican districts!
aug 14, 2025, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view
No, no we don’t. Fuck off. We be fighting back y’all.
aug 14, 2025, 6:29 pm • 3 0 • view
This is what I was thinking might happen....leftwing activists who would have a more difficult time getting elected don't want to change the process no matter that that process is becoming irrelevant.
aug 14, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm glad they are putting it to the voters, but they need to make clear that if Texas and other red states back down, they won't do any redistricting in California. All states should have independent commissions, but until all do, there will be this tension and abuse of the system.
aug 14, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
California voters need to take one for the country and BACK revamping California's Congressional lines.
aug 14, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Not the question that will be presented.
aug 15, 2025, 12:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course, California Republicans are going to oppose redistricting in California because they could lose their seats. LA County's population is larger than most red states, so I welcome redistricting that will give us more representation.
aug 14, 2025, 7:24 pm • 4 0 • view
At least Newsome is putting it to the ultimate poll in November, called voting on it
aug 14, 2025, 2:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Idgaf. Can’t let just one side be scared of the voters. You have to fight. People ALWAYS claim the love nonpartisan stuff. People always lie too.
aug 14, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Now Poll Texas. The GOP don’t GAF what their constituents think, when they’re in control. So, pass a quick rule that does away with the need for a vote to decide about redistricting & do as the GOP would: Do it anyways. Fire w Fire.
aug 14, 2025, 4:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Not true. We back following the same rules as Red states. They do it. We do it.
aug 14, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
This is highly disappointing. Either Californians are not aware of what’s going on or don’t mind what’s happening.
aug 14, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
You are still fluffing for Trump and The Republicans.
aug 14, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck off already. We’re doing it.
aug 14, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Newscum knows all he has to do is get his measure on the ballot regardless of how many people oppose it because once it’s on the ballot the Democrat’s control of the election computers will guarantee his success.
aug 15, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
A survey of only 1,435 people, that began July 28th? Do better.
aug 14, 2025, 6:04 pm • 3 0 • view
It's not a bad poll, but it also isn't asking the right question. Someone can both be in favor of independent redistricting, but also want California to retaliate for a couple of election cycles against mid-decade gerrymandering. So the results just aren't relevant, despite Politico's spin.
aug 14, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly. Disappointing to see this from Politico.
aug 14, 2025, 9:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh they’ve sucked for awhile
aug 15, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
Lies!! Shame!!
aug 14, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Nice try @politico.com, go fuck yourselves!
aug 15, 2025, 12:02 am • 1 0 • view
aug 14, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
BS Politico lies!
aug 14, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Bullshit, #Politico. Stop attempting to tell us how to think with this kind of slick propaganda. Bravo, #Gavin #Newsom! 👏 @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Full speed ahead!
aug 14, 2025, 2:31 pm • 30 2 • view
Did they poll Texas?? More registered Dems than magats…. W
aug 14, 2025, 2:47 pm • 2 0 • view
He should aim for 52-0. Republikkkans r evil fascists and none should be allowed access to power ever again
aug 14, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
This is due to poor messaging. Put simply, if we don’t respond to the TX redistricting plan—in kind, we may never get another shot at a fair election. Ever. Gun to a gun fight.
aug 14, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
A poll done by Politico itself = BS
aug 14, 2025, 2:45 pm • 5 0 • view
Politico learn how to read the room.
aug 14, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
this is politico’s thing, they’re owned by an honest to god german fascist.
aug 14, 2025, 2:14 pm • 6 0 • view
But if the other side are intent on gerrymandering their maps to death, this attitude will produce losers every time.
aug 14, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol this is hilarious. What poll? And of who? 😂
aug 14, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Someone, Politico, doesn’t have a finger on the pulse of Californians’ commitment to democracy and freedom to the point that we feel in our very bones when it becomes necessary to make an exception to a rule of thumb.
aug 14, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Go get GOP Gov. Newsom! Save America from gruesome DonOld & authoritarianism!
aug 14, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think anyone paying attention to whats going on will object to redistricting. Republicans are dead set against Dems doing what they are openly doing, but whats new?
aug 19, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
This poll provided to you by Russian KGB/GRU Politico and #TheHill/ DER STURMER
aug 14, 2025, 3:03 pm • 1 0 • view
“I wish it need not have happened in my time" - Frodo
aug 14, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
You realize this isn't about fairness. This is about democracy vs fascism. Republicans hold power only because of extreme partisan gerrymandering. There is no high road. This is a gunfight. America or the 4th Reich. We can fix it later.
aug 14, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
So… You fucks only polling the people that will give you the poll numbers you want so you can make a buck?
aug 14, 2025, 5:35 pm • 1 0 • view
New poll huh? Anyone else tired of fucking polls?
aug 14, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I am in CA and 1000% support Gov Newsom & Dems in this. ‘when they go low, we go high’ doesn’t work against Trump and today’s Republicans.
aug 14, 2025, 4:10 pm • 3 0 • view
CA: 38% Republican, only 9 of 52 seats (20.9%) IL: 44% Republican, only 3 of 17 seats (17.6%) NY: 43% Republican, only 7 of 26 seats (26.9%) MD: 34% Republican, only 1 of 8 seats (12.5%) NJ: 46% Republican, only 3 of 12 seats (25%) OR: 41% Republican, only 1 of 6 seats (16.7%) Already went low
aug 14, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
If they value democracy CA voters should approve of this new map. It expires after the next census. Very fair.
aug 15, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
people prodemocracy faces hurdles every day, while we yell at them to get it done, the hurdles being strewn everywhere on purpose by our opponents. we're so dumb we sabotage democracy by demanding impunity
aug 14, 2025, 2:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Liberals surrender power in order to ensure good and fair government. The right is only concerned with how they can gain more power. The two parties are not the same. Anyone who says so is doing the bidding of the fascist right.
aug 14, 2025, 2:45 pm • 2 0 • view
What about Texas? No hurdles there? Nice try.
aug 14, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Dems, keep pushing or you will end up with nothing!
aug 14, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
California citizens hate that the only state fighting back is California and we are currently under attack by the federal government
aug 15, 2025, 3:26 am • 1 0 • view
He’s still doing it the right way. Putting it in the people’s hands. He’s not a dictator.
aug 15, 2025, 2:23 am • 2 0 • view
Damn it, of course they do. This is only temporary to fight back against trump. Stop acting like MAGA and freaking fight back!
aug 14, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Vote Newscum out.
aug 15, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
I need to see how this poll was phrased. Because I can’t believe a majority of Californians won’t vote to stop this.
aug 14, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
California voters need to get over it. We are at war. A civil war against the evil empire. And we need California to flood the house and senate with new dem seats
aug 14, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Hopefully he gets it through. After all Republicans are gerrymandering districts in order to favor them so they can steal the elections coming up soon. Republicans are the party of crooks, criminals, liars & cheats! They have to cheat at everything they do. They are the bully that never fights fair
aug 14, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Now do Texas you fascist bootlickers.
aug 14, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Texans also disproportionately oppose the illegal stunts their state leaders are polling. Guess what? Abbott and trump don't give a fuck and are doing it anyway. As a Californian, I support Newsom following their lead.
aug 14, 2025, 5:02 pm • 6 0 • view
*pulling, not polling
aug 14, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
All depends on wording… I’m generally against it too - but to sit back and watch Texas destroy democracy?? 🖕that.
aug 14, 2025, 3:19 pm • 1 0 • view
So does everyone but, Republicans voted against a law that would have banned gerrymandering
aug 14, 2025, 2:00 pm • 6 0 • view
Wtf is wrong with them?!
aug 14, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
At least he’s trying not hiding in the corner sucking his thumb. All people want is other people—politicians—to fight.
aug 14, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Hurdles are made to be jumped, just like you MELANIE MASON
aug 14, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe it's a sign also. Why doesn't California just try to leave the United States and become its own country which will definitely benefit California. I'll definitely move to the NCR.
aug 14, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m afraid his efforts will fail just as his court case did …but he’s got to do something
aug 15, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
Right-wing outlet says what?
aug 14, 2025, 2:18 pm • 10 0 • view
The problem is, unless we play hardball to assure the midterm election isn’t manipulated out of the hands of the majority of voters, there won’t be a need for electoral maps. We won’t survive four years of an unchallenged Trump administration.
aug 15, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0 • view
Politico is such trash…I recall when they asserted Newsom could lose the recall😂😂😂 yikes…easterners 😂
aug 14, 2025, 5:04 pm • 6 0 • view
Nice try but we don’t believe that for a second lmao
aug 14, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
It didn't stop TX... He brings a knife... you bring a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital... you send one of his to the morgue. FIGHT!
aug 14, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
CA tried to play fair in the congressional sandbox, but TX is cheating and we must counteract.
aug 14, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
CA: 38% Republican, only 9 of 52 seats (20.9%) Seems really fair. People need to actually look at what other states already do.
aug 14, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you realize that Trump personally ordered this redistricting halfway through the decade, 1 year before midterms ON PURPOSE? Missing the forest for the trees much? Do you know how many dems have made a concerted effort to make independent redistricting federal? And who voted against it?
aug 14, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
The CAGOP is 25%, so 9 districts out of 52 is correct. independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/ca
aug 14, 2025, 11:06 pm • 1 0 • view
The filthy CAGOP is 25%, but nice try. CA Party Registration Statistics Total Registered Voters: 23,206,519 Democrats: 10,396,792 (44.80%) Republicans: 5,896,203 (25.41%) Third Party/Other: 1,577,083 (6.80%) Unaffiliated: 5,336,441 (23.00%) independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/ca
aug 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
How a question is asked and the info presented with it--ie, the context--can affect poll answers. Let's see how this plays if TX keeps going, and especially if other red states join in.
aug 14, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't believe any polls. When push comes to shove Californians will do what's right to save it's country from dictatorship.
aug 14, 2025, 5:07 pm • 6 0 • view
CA: 38% Republican, only 9 of 52 seats (20.9%) IL: 44% Republican, only 3 of 17 seats (17.6%) NY: 43% Republican, only 7 of 26 seats (26.9%) MD: 34% Republican, only 1 of 8 seats (12.5%) NJ: 46% Republican, only 3 of 12 seats (25%) OR: 41% Republican, only 1 of 6 seats (16.7%)
aug 14, 2025, 7:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Get fucked Politico. Carrying water for the GOP fascists will not be forgotten...
aug 14, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
This is not a reason NOT to try it. Fuck Politico if this is the best you can do.
aug 14, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Bullshit. My guess would be these are targeted polls (asking only republican voters) to produce the results they want. People naturally like to follow the crowd. So if the word out there is most people don't want that, many people will just go along rather than push back. It's a sad reality but true
aug 14, 2025, 3:15 pm • 4 0 • view
POLITICO IS WRONG!!! Watch Gavin Newsom’s Press Conference TODAY AT 11:30 PT, RIGHT HERE: www.youtube.com/live/io2Hutl...
aug 14, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
LoLs as a Green Party Californian....Do It Newsom!
aug 14, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
California democrats better get their fucking shit together. Is the heat clouding their brains right now? WTF??
aug 14, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course we do. California hates fascists!
aug 14, 2025, 2:26 pm • 2 0 • view
The media & politicians playing with your minds👇
aug 14, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
He HAS to do it!!!
aug 14, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 14, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
These times call for urgent revamping of norms and the realization that at least temporarily, you have to fight fire with fire. You can't keep the blinders on while you're being stomped at the polls. Meet the challenge. Republicans are going full nuke on gerrymandering now at Trump's request.
aug 14, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
as hot wheels said we dont care what voters think its what the supreme leader wants
aug 14, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
We'll see.
aug 14, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico still don't it.If only they applied the same standard's to the Facist Trump regime.Newsom is starting to understand when dealing these Facist. The old rules no longer apply.It doesn't matter what polls say Trump just makes up his own poll numbers.
aug 14, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Nothing can stop a determined mind. Gavin will get it done, just like the election rigging GOP MAGA REPUBLICANS.
aug 14, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
CA: 38% Republican, only 9 of 52 seats (20.9%) IL: 44% Republican, only 3 of 17 seats (17.6%) NY: 43% Republican, only 7 of 26 seats (26.9%) MD: 34% Republican, only 1 of 8 seats (12.5%) NJ: 46% Republican, only 3 of 12 seats (25%) OR: 41% Republican, only 1 of 6 seats (16.7%)
aug 14, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, it will be tough to convince voters to go back to a partisan system, even though the Supreme Court has given it their blessing and Republicans in other states have been flagrantly abusing the system to give them up to a dozen extra seats in the House of Representatives.
aug 14, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Pfffft
aug 14, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
These California's need to shut the FUCK up and let him do his job!!!
aug 15, 2025, 11:25 am • 0 0 • view
Mmmm... yeah... no. Your "poll" is a bit cherry picked, unlike the maps your boss ordered you to defend. Cherry-picked maps to follow though :)
aug 14, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 0 • view
I'll wait for a poll from a less biased organisation.
aug 14, 2025, 4:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Who gives a fuck? The reason the WORLD is in this mess is because American progressives would rather get walked on than have to get their hands a little dirty.
aug 14, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Are these the same people who keep sending the same just right of center democrats to Washington?
aug 14, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Watch out for a right wing white guy ready to shoot at close range
aug 15, 2025, 11:27 am • 0 0 • view
Politico...gee I wonder which way they lean...
aug 15, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
This policy has to be national. State by state policy only rewards the bad actors and doesn’t achieve the outcome voters prefer.
aug 14, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, but it's a Politico poll so...
aug 14, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Good old Politco! They know nothing about the pulse of America and what is happening outside of DC.
aug 14, 2025, 2:13 pm • 9 1 • view
Politico is in the tank for the authoritarians taking over our country, their "polls" cannot be trusted. Fuck @politico.com for being biased and complicit with fascists!
aug 14, 2025, 4:31 pm • 6 0 • view
I don’t think this tells the whole story. Do most democrats think that maps should be independent and fair? Of course? Do democrats also comprehend that as long as they’re not independent and fair, weaponizing them back is the only way that political power can be wielded? I would hope so
aug 14, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Pssst! USA!! You are the cast. You can follow the director’s orders or you can rewrite the script in real time … Save examining the cutting room floor for after all the takes are complete. Am with you.
aug 14, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Welp, it's time to block another poser new site.
aug 14, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It seems suspicious to me that this headline appears the day of Newsom's press conference. I'm in California and I support redistricting in this case.
aug 14, 2025, 3:13 pm • 1 0 • view
They vote this down, don’t want to hear squat when Texas and other red states do the same. Level the playing field or f-off.
aug 14, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Playing by the rules when your fascist opponent is blatantly violating them isn't noble. It's suicide.
aug 14, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Well shit, if a poll says that, we better just let the country go to hell. FOH
aug 15, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
Lol
aug 15, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
Have a referendum and see who wants to join 🇨🇦!
aug 14, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Idealism gets in the way of achieving the ideal....
aug 14, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Polls in Texas don’t support what they’re doing either.
aug 14, 2025, 4:17 pm • 3 0 • view
This was my thought too!
aug 14, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
There will be no hurdle.
aug 14, 2025, 9:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Sure, in a perfect world who wouldn’t want unbiased, fair, and transparent redistricting? Were the respondents asked, “Do you prefer redistricting California to offset GOP gerrymandering in other states to benefit a wannabe, fascist dictator or falling to fascism?” I’d like to see those results…
aug 14, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I think the key is going to be to make it clear that the new maps would be temporary; contingent only on what happens in Texas
aug 14, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
You didn't actually poll people on what Newsom is asking them to do, because Politico supports Republicans. Newsom is asking for a one-time change that triggers based on Republicans and reverts back after next Census. You asked if Californians want to change back forever. What a dumb poll.
aug 14, 2025, 4:22 pm • 6 0 • view
Typical conservative-oriented polls to influence policy instead of asking questions to voters. They use the results they massage from specific questions to campaign against Dem policies.
aug 14, 2025, 4:29 pm • 3 0 • view
This 👆
aug 15, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
It’s fight now with the “rules” Republicans have been using for decades, or lose our democracy.
aug 14, 2025, 2:44 pm • 12 4 • view
More HORSESHIT from Politico clowns California WILL absolutely vote to Fight the #OrangeTREASON and politico can GFT
aug 14, 2025, 3:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Ah so the solution is do nothing because of some obscure poll no one understands.
aug 14, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
This shows how woefully uninformed many of us are.
aug 14, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s hope the voters know what they’re voting for. Look what happened last time… Plus let’s rid ourselves of the electoral college system for electing presidents, it’s too corrupt
aug 14, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico is one of the conductors on the Trump Train.
aug 14, 2025, 3:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Politico, eat my ass.
aug 14, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
What happened to you Politico? when did you become a mouthpeace for MAGA? I have watched, over the years, of your bending the knee and twisting your stories to appease the orange marmalade muffin. Sad, really. Sad that you have no integrity nor journalistic fiber
aug 15, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
Time to re-do the maps! Tired of this “when they go low, we go high” bullshit. Fight fire with fire.
aug 14, 2025, 5:44 pm • 2 0 • view
This is too important. Californians, you can't keep playing by a different set of rules. That's how we got into this fucking mess
aug 14, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
it’s gonna pass because we’re not fucking stupid, politico hacks
aug 14, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
You work for Germany's version of Murdoch. Sad.
aug 14, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I remember Zohran's polling before the NYC primary too, and look how inaccurate that was. VOTING is what matters, and the people active in voting right now are anti-fascists. Also, to another comment's point, why is there no polling on TX population about how they feel about redistricting there?
aug 14, 2025, 2:19 pm • 8 0 • view
Nah fuck it, he should push through a map that has 0 Republicans. Stop playing by someone else's rules.
aug 14, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
A GOP gov would do it anyway. That said, it’s shitty no matter who does it.
aug 14, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok, but Republican voters are fine with gerrymandering Democrats out of existence, so we dgaf what polls say about it.
aug 14, 2025, 2:02 pm • 13 0 • view
CA: 38% Republican, only 9 of 52 seats (20.9%) IL: 44% Republican, only 3 of 17 seats (17.6%) NY: 43% Republican, only 7 of 26 seats (26.9%) MD: 34% Republican, only 1 of 8 seats (12.5%) NJ: 46% Republican, only 3 of 12 seats (25%) OR: 41% Republican, only 1 of 6 seats (16.7%)
aug 14, 2025, 7:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh one more question…how many of those spineless Nazi ass licking Republicans have voted to block all the democratic led legislation to make independent restricting federal law? Got any stats on that?
aug 14, 2025, 8:56 pm • 2 0 • view
And how many of these blue states redrew their districts mid decade at the direct request of a corrupt democratic US president 1 year before a midterm election? Oh that’s right 0%. Only 0 of 0. Oh and how many U.S. presidents are actively engaging in the Epstein cover up? 👀 release the files!!!
aug 14, 2025, 8:52 pm • 7 0 • view
Thanks. Now do the Republican states!
aug 15, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, remember when immigration was Trump's strongest issue? Shit happens. Things change. Californians aren't as stupid as Trump supporters and we aren't as willfully ignorant as the corporate media. We see exactly what Trump and the GOP are trying to do and we will vote accordingly in November.
aug 15, 2025, 8:51 am • 1 0 • view
did Texas poll voters before doing it?
aug 14, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view
So how it’s okay when the president threatens the Republican in Texas to do the exact same thing but worse cause they have already done it multiple times without the voters approval.
aug 14, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I would usually be against this as well from either side but we can’t be being noble and doing the right thing anymore. Especially when the other side isn’t playing fair
aug 15, 2025, 11:59 am • 1 0 • view
Politico trying to tamper down @governor.ca.gov efforts to respond on kind to Texas retrumplican fucks who are trying to steal seats for their supreme leader to which Politico seems to side with.
aug 14, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, so Politico throws cold water on Democratic efforts to save our country. Just another day from this right wing rag.
aug 14, 2025, 2:49 pm • 22 2 • view
I’m a Californian. All of my Californian friends and family support this 💯! We are done playing by the rules while the GOP constantly cheats. Go Gavin!
aug 14, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
CA: 38% Republican, only 9 of 52 seats (20.9%) Sure did well playing by the so called rules.
aug 14, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Stupid take @politico.com
aug 15, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
That was before Trump and the GOP are trying to rig the midterms. Im in a blue state and 100% believed in independent maps until i saw the shit the Republican thugs. Now? Gerrymander them like crazy until ALL 50 states agree to independent maps.
aug 14, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Dems need to fight fire with fire - WTFU
aug 14, 2025, 7:30 pm • 1 0 • view
He faces a major hurdle just speaking common sense!
aug 14, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Only hurdles for folks who want to follow the law Never hurdles for lawless authoritarians with a corrupt court at their back
aug 14, 2025, 1:58 pm • 75 3 • view
And I seem to have no memory of the same headline regarding Abbot & Texas. Strange how @politico.com only holds one side accountable.
aug 14, 2025, 2:57 pm • 55 8 • view
They are most likely only polling people that will give them the poll numbers they want!
aug 14, 2025, 5:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Politico is a halfbaked "news" source with a Conservative bent. Most Californians want democracy but they're going to do what it takes to fight back, they've proven this already. No more going high when they go low, we have to go low.
aug 14, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
In the abstract, sure, people consistently want district revisions taken out of the hands of politicians. This question doesn't really address how to prevent (or respond to) a power grab by fascists in another state. And what does the poll of Texas voters tell you about Abbott's plan?
aug 14, 2025, 4:34 pm • 2 0 • view
California voters better step up.
aug 14, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Storm in a teacup Newsom has already confirmed that the redistricting is only required to win back congress so that they can ban gerrymandering in all states permanently. I no longer trust the media or their polls.
aug 14, 2025, 8:45 pm • 1 0 • view
So fucking what.
aug 14, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
So I guess you’ll be beating this drum, anytime Democrats try to fight back, they can depend on you to tell us why not to
aug 14, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Good thing we don’t believe in polls any more because we know they are all bad!
aug 14, 2025, 8:00 pm • 2 0 • view
No, we don't. I'm not a Democrat, I'm a Conservative Independent. I recognize when a corrupt federal government seeks to impose authoritarian one-party rule. Redrawing CA district maps is a tactic in response to dictators working to cancel our state's autonomy. We'll oppose by any means necessary
aug 14, 2025, 3:01 pm • 6 0 • view
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/a... "What has been missing thus far—conspicuously so, from a German perspective—has been greater alarm at Axel Springer’s long and well-documented track record of mixing journalism and right-wing politics."
aug 14, 2025, 3:07 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s funny because I always read about polls and I have never been asked to participate in one, nor have I ever met a person who has participated in one. I’ve been around a while, so you’d think I would at least know someone who participated in one. 🤔
aug 15, 2025, 6:32 am • 0 0 • view
Idiots.
aug 14, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
The dilemma of democracy and authoritarianism. Gavin may lose as democracy is messy compared to whatever a dictator wants. Democracy gives us all a voice, even if we don't get what we want every time. At least you had a voice it's better than the alternative 100%.
aug 14, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Ahhh, here goes #Politico carrying water for the fascist #TrumpRegime. Hey Politico, where is your reporting on the Texas Republican #Nazis redrawing their congressional maps of Gerry Mander? You're not the resistance & spare me this "both sides" bullshit. You are literally part of the problem.
aug 15, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 14, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
lol, are you kidding? California will get it done (do some journalism, okay?)
aug 14, 2025, 6:35 pm • 5 0 • view
Sounds like push poll bullshit from GOP ballwashers at Politico.
aug 14, 2025, 6:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Who gives a shit. We're in battle mode now. Ask yourself "what would they do" and you KNOW the answer.
aug 14, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Hey CA patriots, if we can't make this happen, the fascists win! #Apathy=Death
aug 14, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
We know why it’s a problem, and we know why it has to be done. Same as you.
aug 14, 2025, 6:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Uh, Politico…California voters are not stupid. They’re not MAGA. They know the stakes.
aug 15, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, I'm in. Hell yes we need to take our country back and if that means changing the districts to save democracy, count me in!
aug 14, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
He should just do what Republicans do and bundle it with something that he knows will win. Like “should we redraw the congressional maps and cut property taxes by $10 per thousand?“
aug 14, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I ditched politico and erased the app the a few months ago because they were already turning a blind eye to his actions for more favorable treatment
aug 14, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 0 • view
YA THAT WOULD BE THE WAY TO GO IF EVERYONE PLAYED BY THE RULES. SADLY STATES LIKE TEXASSSS DO NOT PLAY BY THE RULES🤣🤣🤣😠😠😠😠👎👎👎👎👎🥲💔
aug 14, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
This headline is misleading and exactly what I would expect from politico.
aug 15, 2025, 1:15 am • 2 0 • view
Then the voters better get used to the Army on their streets and knocking on their doors. Seriously, if they word it only to trigger if Texas does it, that should be palatable. This ain’t your father’s politics anymore.
aug 14, 2025, 3:08 pm • 2 0 • view
So how popular is the Texas redistricting plan?
aug 14, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 14, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Let me guess. A poll conducted by the Right?
aug 15, 2025, 2:06 am • 1 0 • view
Nice work Gavin, keep'on the good work 👍
aug 14, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
GFY. Try polling me here in CA next time.
aug 15, 2025, 10:48 am • 0 0 • view