usernamesAreTrickyDec 11

In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander

https://lemmy.ml/post/40199222

Show threadHawke

The proposed map would have targeted Indiana’s two Democratic U.S. representatives to hand all 9 seats to the GOP.  Around 45% of Indiana’s party-affiliated voters are Democrats.

So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.

Sounds to me like they approved a GOP-gerrymandered map.

Dec 11 at 10:52pmWeb
Show threadCricketDec 11

So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.

That’s not what that sentence is saying. Note the “party-affiliated” qualifier. I checked and according to the first search result I found 25% of Indiana voters are registered Democrat, 31% are registered Republican, and 44% are “unaffiliated”.

Source: independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/in

Indiana Voter Registration Statistics

Learn more about Indiana's Partisan primaries, partisan voter registration statistics, current voter totals, political parties, and more from the Independent Voter Project.

Show threadlmmarsanoDec 11
Dang, literacy sure comes in handy over jumping to conclusions.
Show threadminorkeysDec 12
I think they mean keeping the current one is also gerrymandered.
Show threadHawkeDec 12
Correct.
Show threadHawkeDec 12

That exactly what the sentence is saying, unless you have reason to believe that the politics of the “unaffiliated” are drastically different from the affiliated.

Certainly it seems robe close to the presidential election results over the last 20 years, at 58-40-2 for republican-democrat-other, respectively.

Show threadtauisgodDec 12
They’ve been in control of the state for over 20 years, so yes. They carved out 2 tiny circles around 2 deep blue areas, and made the other districts much larger in comparison and diluted the blue votes there. I think Mitc Daniels was the last GOP governor (2005-2014) that wasn’t a total POS and he was still fairly regressive.