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The LRC's preliminary House map is an extreme partisan gerrymander, it is a danger to our system of government that upends established norms and the emphasis on local control and local voices that Pennsylvanians hold dear. – Kerry Benninghoff	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The fact that this gerrymander is achieved at the expense of people of color is not surprising. – Michael Li	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Some elected officials are afraid that if they embrace a more diverse Save America, they will lose their power, those same people are willing to weaponize the new Census data to gerrymander the vote and rig the system against Black and Brown Americans. – Democrats The new census	Found on CNN 2 years ago
( In South Florida) the problem with white Democrats is they tend to live near white Republicans, sometimes in the same house, so unless you're gerrymandering down somebody's bed... South Florida's really hard to gerrymander white Democrats when there aren't that many of them, south Florida's much more efficient because of residential segregation to target communities of color. And so you really can't politically gerrymander in South Florida without targeting communities of color, which gets you right into race based claims. – Michael Li	Found on CNN 3 years ago
To me, what's amazing is that we continue to see this level shift across the country, a 20-point swing, that puts about 123 Republican seats potentially in play, at that point, very little is off the map, and getting the 24 seats we need to take back the House is suddenly a real possibility, GOP gerrymander or not. – Daily Kos	Found on CNN 7 years ago
At that point, very little is off the map, and getting the 24 seats we need to take back the House is suddenly a real possibility, GOP gerrymander or not, it also potentially puts the Senate in play, while certainly protecting our endangered red-state incumbents. All of this, and we're still in Trump's supposed 'honeymoon' period. – Daily Kos	Found on CNN 7 years ago

The LRC's preliminary House map is an extreme partisan gerrymander, it is a danger to our system of government that upends established norms and the emphasis on local control and local voices that Pennsylvanians hold dear.

– Kerry Benninghoff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The fact that this gerrymander is achieved at the expense of people of color is not surprising.

– Michael Li

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some elected officials are afraid that if they embrace a more diverse Save America, they will lose their power, those same people are willing to weaponize the new Census data to gerrymander the vote and rig the system against Black and Brown Americans.

– Democrats The new census

Found on CNN
2 years ago

( In South Florida) the problem with white Democrats is they tend to live near white Republicans, sometimes in the same house, so unless you're gerrymandering down somebody's bed... South Florida's really hard to gerrymander white Democrats when there aren't that many of them, south Florida's much more efficient because of residential segregation to target communities of color. And so you really can't politically gerrymander in South Florida without targeting communities of color, which gets you right into race based claims.

– Michael Li

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To me, what's amazing is that we continue to see this level shift across the country, a 20-point swing, that puts about 123 Republican seats potentially in play, at that point, very little is off the map, and getting the 24 seats we need to take back the House is suddenly a real possibility, GOP gerrymander or not.

– Daily Kos

Found on CNN
7 years ago

At that point, very little is off the map, and getting the 24 seats we need to take back the House is suddenly a real possibility, GOP gerrymander or not, it also potentially puts the Senate in play, while certainly protecting our endangered red-state incumbents. All of this, and we're still in Trump's supposed 'honeymoon' period.

– Daily Kos

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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