No way, no how! Whilst I agree there's a point to SOME both siderism to gerrymandering in principle, the fact of the matter mid-decade gerrymandering (except when standing maps, usually after reapportionment after a census, having been being found unconstitutional) was only done once before, by you guessed it, Texas in 2003. It's what assured that TX would steadily move to the right for the next 20 years once SCOTUS up held it in 2006. NO BLUE STATE has done it mid census without being forced to by a court. Ohio voted and passed an amendment requiring independent panels, the repuke legislature told them to go get fucked. Same with MO. Hell those 2 states have repealed immediately an untold number of things the voters approved via public ballots and wanted because thats what THEY do, not us, when they have full power. I'll buy gerrymandering in and of itself HAS been done in the past by both sides but what the repukes are doing now is completely out of control. There is NO BOTH SIDES to this mid census partisan map BS.
AND I'll add by our side playing more fairly when it comes to these maps, by requiring more indepent panels to draw them etc than they do or even offering them on the ballot every 10 years, repukes have beat us 2-1 with the number of super majorities in state legislatures. ]THAT RIGHT THERE is where they are heading with these mid census maps because they are a handful of states away from a Constitutional Convention. They so close they can taste it like a starving lion whose been following a herd of Zebras for months. They know they will NEVER get this chance in another 150 years and they will DIE!. The midterms are a head fake. The Constitutional Convention is the final touchdown, game over.
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