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Bored As gently caress posted:Didn't they do that in another state in 2016 when a Democrat won? This is an all-too-familiar play from them. They did it to Roy Cooper(NC). Republicans are the most pathetic sore losers ever.
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DoktorLoken posted:https://twitter.com/patrickdmarley/status/1060301509584404480?s=21 Wait, I'm confused as to how this works. They can just stop a Governor elect from being sworn in?
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BigDave posted:Wait, I'm confused as to how this works. They can just stop a Governor elect from being sworn in? No, they just want to gut the ability of the governor to do anything.
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BigDave posted:Wait, I'm confused as to how this works. They can just stop a Governor elect from being sworn in? They're talking about moving power out of the Governors hands and into the state assembly to prevent the awful hellfucker democrat from possibly accomplishing anything to make peoples lives better.
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BigDave posted:Wait, I'm confused as to how this works. They can just stop a Governor elect from being sworn in? They basically want to rewrite the rules so that a governor now has less powers than he had when the seat was filled by a Republican. This would be the second time this has happened.
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Meanwhile Maryland has been ordered to undo its pro-dem gerrymander
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sharknado slashfic posted:Meanwhile Maryland has been ordered to undo its pro-dem gerrymander Good. All gerrymandering is bad. Now let’s do the rest of the states.
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facialimpediment posted:Remember Jon Ossoff and the GA-6 debacle? That's awesome because Handel is a huge piece of poo poo
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Apparently moveon.org triggered their protest alert. The replacement of Rod Rosenstein did it. Tomorrow at 5 nationwide apparently. I think its rolling and not simultaneous.
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Soulex posted:Apparently moveon.org triggered their protest alert. The replacement of Rod Rosenstein did it. Tomorrow at 5 nationwide apparently. I think its rolling and not simultaneous. Was Rod outed or just replaced in the role of oversight?
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Nephzinho posted:Was Rod outed or just replaced in the role of oversight? AFAIK just replaced as overseer of the Mueller investigation by the now Acting AG.
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Casimir Radon posted:They did it to Roy Cooper(NC). Republicans are the most pathetic sore losers ever. They're still trying to whittle away at the governor's powers. We just had two constitutional amendment ballot initiatives that would limit his ability to appoint judges and election board members. Luckily those failed, but they'll still try to gently caress with the governorship as much as they can. Till they win it back and undo all those rules. God NC can be so loving stupid sometimes.
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That Works posted:That's awesome because Handel is a huge piece of poo poo In hindsight running a dork who campaigned on balancing the budget was insanely stupid, but it was the most 2016 dems move possible
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Nephzinho posted:Was Rod outed or just replaced in the role of oversight?
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Casimir Radon posted:No. Sessions resigning took the AG recusal with him. New guy is in charge now and Rosenstein is out of the loop. This is good, finally the AG will be fair to trump
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quote:PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Democrat Andy Kim has claimed victory after a very tight race in New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District, but Republican incumbent Tom MacArthur is not ready to concede. https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/11/07/new-jerseys-third-congressional-district/ quote:ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Democrat Xochitl Torres Small has taken the lead in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District race. https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/xochitl-torres-small-takes-lead-in-2nd-congressional-district-race/5137351/ Votes still being counted in both races.
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Vasudus posted:unfortunately the dean of the house swears in new congresspeople Yeah I was profoundly disappointed when someone pointed that out in the twitter thread.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Yeah I was profoundly disappointed when someone pointed that out in the twitter thread. i'm lame enough to know that offhand it's a great shame
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orange juche posted:I imagine Pence would burst into flames if he did have to swear them in though. Pence Death Rally
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orange juche posted:I imagine Pence would burst into flames if he did have to swear them in though. 
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sharknado slashfic posted:https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/11/07/new-jerseys-third-congressional-district/ Local papers are treating Torres Small as final. NM-2 just flipped blue. After the Republican gave her victory speech last night too.
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mlmp08 posted:There's a brewing Navy SEALs investigation into war crimes, with at least 2 charged already. One of the charged is turning to this fine charity for legal help: For a moment I thought it was  on the right.
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Crakkerjakk posted:Local papers are treating Torres Small as final. NM-2 just flipped blue. After the Republican gave her victory speech last night too. It's beautiful seeing these rural states turn blue. Reminds me of whenever CHUDs show the electoral college map with the huge swaths of red. There are sensible people in all parts of the country. Montana had an interesting midterm. Its sole congressional district was won by Gianforte (the bodyslammer) with 243K to 218K, but the Senate seat went to Tester with 237K to 223K. Looks like Gianforte was a more convincing candidate than Rosendale, or that Tester's proved himself with his past record.
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Suicide Watch posted:It's beautiful seeing these rural states turn blue. Reminds me of whenever CHUDs show the electoral college map with the huge swaths of red. There are sensible people in all parts of the country. NM-1 and 3 are heavily Democrat, and to me the flipping of NM-2 is huge.
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Talking about the Maryland congressional map gerrymandering, I dug into it a little bit more and  The offending part is that bottom orange area towards DC which was added to district 6 in 2011, which if iirc what I just read removed 66k gop voters and added 22k dem voters to the district. This is also why dems have held that district since it was redrawn (including yesterday). If you believe in actual democracy I can assure you just from knowing the state that a democrat is absolutely not the majority of that western orange blobs first choice to represent them (unless I'm really pleasantly surprised some day).
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Suicide Watch posted:It's beautiful seeing these rural states turn blue. Reminds me of whenever CHUDs show the electoral college map with the huge swaths of red. There are sensible people in all parts of the country. I mean, it was mostly increased turnout in the one big city down there, I think. Typically turnout there was pretty low, but no incumbent + Trump's racism in a pretty heavily Hispanic state drove turnout enough for it to get across the line. But aside from Cruces, that district is mostly Northwest Texas. Harrell was a pro-trump dipshit, Pearce before her repeatedly won reelection as a member of the HFC. The way this sticks is if people keep turning out. Not (mostly) because the people who showed up in the past changed their minds.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Talking about the Maryland congressional map gerrymandering, I dug into it a little bit more and Just look at MD3. Interrupted districts should be a loving crime.
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FrozenVent posted:Just look at MD3. Interrupted districts should be a loving crime. MD-3 isn't interrupted! The current, stupid standard is that the districts have to be connected, like they can be drawn without lifting your pencil. If you squint REALLY HARD, you'll see the connections! Both parties gerrymander the gently caress out of everything, it's just that our current gerrymandered maps are a consequence of Republicans in control of most poo poo around the 2010 timeframe.
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In a just world I wouldn't consider bodies of water to be interruptions. If some good algorithm grouped both sides of a river, or hell, even something as separated as Hampton Roads + Virginia Beach, fine. As long as the map is done mathematically and comes out seeming reasonably fairly divided. My favorite is where you put nodes at the local population maxima and use a graph algorithm that flows down roads weighting major roads and locally known regions to clump equivalent numbers of voters. But I'm sure someone who actually knows this poo poo will tell me why thats a terrible algorithm and there are better ones that I haven't heard of.
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