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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Sep 2020

      Note that "blocking Republican gerrymanders" in that last is code for "imposing Democrat gerrymanders."

      15 replies 56 retweets 337 likes
    2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      The difference is, again, like so many issues. Rs have gone way over the top since the TX mid decade grrrymander. Dems—not all but most—would agree to neutral commissions. Rs won’t. So until Rs agree to neutral administration, Ds will have to retain their rights too.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson

      The D goal is to get D gerrymanders, then seek to freeze the status quo. That is exactly what was at stake in Texas.

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    4. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      15 years ago. The Ds goals, actually, and the public policy advocacy here is overwhelming, is to have neutral CDs such that a state like NC is 7-6 one way or another, not 10-3. It’s just projection to think problem is Dems. Look at Wisconsin!

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson

      Look at Illinois, Maryland, & what Ds will do in 2021. Remember: if Ds get the same share of House seats in 2008 as their national share of the popular vote, Obamacare doesn't pass.

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    6. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Again, the difference is there is pushback in the party, a lot of it. Dems run state referendums on commissions. Republicans don’t do that. But—again—why does that stop *you* from supporting commissions? You want to continue politicians picking their voters, is that right?

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    7. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      So you’re just empirically wrong—everywhere there is a “good government” proposal here, it’s Dems who make it. Some old line machine Dems will fight neutral commissions, but most Dems won’t. But, really, how are you any different than the most corrupt IL Dem?

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    8. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      I guess what’s frustrating here for me is that you use the weakest kind of polemic—hypocrisy! But you don’t suggest, as I have here: what is the normatively *right* policy? It turns out that you are support gerrymandering. You won’t agree to eliminating it for *both* parties.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson

      Gerrymandering is a power struggle between Right & Left, in which the common man can get a hearing. The alternative is to hand over power to elite, unelected, unaccountable liberals, on the bench or in insulated bureaucratic commissions. That's fundamentally anti-democratic.

      5:07 PM - 6 Sep 2020
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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          ??? We elect governments who can appoint the commissions. You think the commissions in Iowa and Arizona are composed of all “liberals?! C’mon Dan—do better than that! That’s nonsense—it’s a struggle for incumbents to retain their power, no matter which party.

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        3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

          And the “common man” gets a hearing? What does that even mean? How about the the large majority of common men and women who voted for Dems in WI, and then Dems get 36% of the seats. Some defense of the working class!

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        1. ZaxxonGalaxian‏ @ZaxxonGalaxian 7 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson

          That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. Gerrymandering let’s the party in power in each state at each ten year point game the system to its own advantage and disenfranchise the other side’s voters. Much better to have neutral rules applied everywhere.

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        1. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 7 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          So you have the same view as the hackish , gerrymandering Dems you excoriate. That’s fine, but then there’s no reason that anybody shouid take your criticisms of them seriously.

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        1. Nah‏ @eastchoast 7 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson

          Sounds like you support gerrymandering. Outstanding. Don’t expect a peep from you then in ‘21 if Dems do everything you suggest—after all, the other proposals are worse, right?

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