Can we discuss gerrymandering?
A 12 months in the past, within the six New England states, 3,095,520 folks voted for Donald J. Trump.
That works out to only beneath 41% of the general voters.
Subsequent statistic: New England has 21 of the 435 members of the U.S. Home of Representatives.
Would you care to guess what number of of these 21 Congressmen are Republicans, representing that 41% of the inhabitants that voted GOP for president in 2024?
The variety of Republicans is zero. Democrats, with 59% of the voters, management 100% of the 21 seats.
Republicans, who’re 41% of the voters, get zero % of the seats.
Don’t Democrats declare to consider in, amongst so many different great issues, range, fairness and inclusion?
How is mainly gerrymandering 41% of New Englanders into political oblivion a celebration of DEI?
I deliver this up in the present day after the choice by Maine Democrat Rep. Jared Golden to not search reelection. Since 2018, he has represented the Second District of Maine, the northern a part of the state, which is mainly a Republican district.
How Republican is the voters of the Second? They voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024. In Maine’s system of allocating electoral votes by Congressional district, the Maine Second gave Trump his solely electoral votes in New England within the final three elections.
Final 12 months Trump carried the Second with 53.5% of the vote.
So why does the Second have a Democrat Congressman?
The reply may be summed up in three phrases:
Ranked-choice voting.
Democrats have every kind of the way to rig elections, and never simply large out-and-out fraud like in 2020. Mail-in ballots, poll harvesting, voting by illegals, felons (together with the incarcerated), useless folks, and so forth. and so forth.
After which there’s ranked-choice voting. In a nutshell, right here’s how ranked-choice voting works. Democrats simply hold counting and counting and recounting the votes till the worst Democrat wins.
The most effective description of ranked-choice voting got here in 1948, within the film “Key Largo.” Edward G. Robinson was sensible within the position of Johnny Rocco, a Capone-like gangster reminiscing about how he used to get his corrupt stooges elected within the huge metropolis:
“Get my boys to deliver the voters out. After which depend the votes again and again ‘til they added up proper and he was elected.”
C’mon down, Jared Golden! It was 2018, and he was operating in opposition to GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin. The Democrats knew they couldn’t beat Poliquin, in order that they put in… ranked-choice voting.
I may attempt to clarify to you the way it works, however what’s the purpose? Johnny Rocco summed it up a long time earlier than Democrats really put it into follow. The repair is in, that’s all you should know.
Backside line: On election day 2018, Poliquin defeated Golden by 2,000 votes. However the Democrats had inserted two different candidates much more deranged than Golden, so Poliquin didn’t fairly get a majority.
That opened the way in which for Democrats to maintain counting the votes again and again ‘til they added up proper.
And that was the political finish of the final Republican congressman, not simply in Maine, however in New England.
Since then Golden has one way or the other held on, buoyed by tens of hundreds of thousands in darkish, Soros-type out-of-state funds. Politically, he’s a chameleon’s chameleon. In DC he took orders from Pelosi, then returned Down East, pretending to be an actual Mainer.
That labored for him, till it didn’t. Democrats in Maine have change into like Democrats all over the place else – they’re all the time on the lookout for the flavour of the month, so long as it’s nuttier than the final one.
Have a look at their Senate candidate in Maine, Graham Platner, the self-proclaimed “working class” candidate who went to the la-de-da Hotchkiss Faculty in Connecticut.
Jared Golden was a cutting-edge Democrat there for some time as a result of he had a tattoo. Democrats actually consider a tattoo makes you “working class.” Now comes Graham Platner operating for the US Senate. Platner too has a tattoo – a Nazi tattoo.
No marvel he’s 30 factors forward of the dreadful 78-year-old incumbent Democrat, Janet Mills.
Platner’s the flavour of the month. Tattoos good, Nazi tattoos higher. Socialism good, Communism higher. It’s a Democrat factor now. Cross the Kool-Help.
So like Janet Mills, crackpot fellow traveler Jared Golden was getting muscled… from the left. His votes, like his tattoos, simply weren’t insane sufficient anymore. A comrade was operating within the major in opposition to him.
And on the Republican facet, Golden was dealing with former Gov. Paul LePage. Like Trump, LePage has carried the Second District each time he’s run (for governor). He doesn’t have any tattoos, however he does communicate French. And he’s not a phony like Golden. Golden was 5 factors down within the polls to LePage.
Golden was squeezed out, like the 2 Democrat senators who opposed casting off the filibuster throughout the Biden junta. They’re gone now. Golden would do something to remain in workplace, and did.
However finally, it wasn’t sufficient. The revolution eats its personal, but once more. Robespierre couldn’t be reached for remark.
Golden’s destiny jogged my memory of how he slithered into workplace, and what it’s meant for the final six years – zero Republican illustration in New England for 40% of the inhabitants. (Sorry, Sen. Susan Collins doesn’t depend.)
As soon as the Schumer shutdown ends, regime-controlled media will once more pivot again to the deranged Democrat gerrymandering happening in states like California and Illinois.
In California, 9 of the 52 Congressional seats are held by Republicans – 17%. Trump acquired 38% of the vote within the Golden State. So Democrats simply spent tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to redistrict the variety of Republicans right down to 4 – 7%.
Democrats mainly mentioned they needed to rig the districts to cease the district-rigging. , like in Vietnam they needed to destroy the village to save lots of the village.
It’s the identical in all of the Democrat states. In Illinois, Trump acquired 43.5% of the vote final 12 months. The GOP has 3 of the 15 Home seats – 17%. Within the Land o’ Lincoln, Lincoln in the present day can be an endangered species, due to Democrat gerrymandering.
Simply keep in mind these numbers, the subsequent time you hear a Democrat discuss threats to democracy.
One man, one vote, until you’re a Republican.
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