Sentences with phrase «republican gerrymandering»

We see the negative effects of Republican gerrymandering in 2011 every time this Congress votes.

Republican gerrymandering after the 2010 Census rigged the system; it is hurting our democracy.

Owing to natural clustering of Democratic voters and Republican gerrymandering, Democrats probably need to win the House popular vote by about seven points to take control.

Some of that is the new Republican gerrymander, but some of that is the loss of the old gerrymander which had been done by the Democrats.

He let the Republicans gerrymander their own districts to suppress Democratic voters, especially voters of color.

You fail to understand that in 2002, Republicans gerrymandered the 11 Republican districts and lost all of them except for Peter King, who is now in danger since he now has a very competitive district with tens of thousands of minorities that are currently in Steve Israels district.

Not exact matches

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

For example, in Illinois, gerrymandering in 2011 led to the House delegation changing from eleven Republicans and eight Democrats to twelve Democrats and six Republicans.

It will be interesting to see how the Democrats break up Hinchey's district, which was gerrymandered to be Democrat - dominated and is surrounded by districts held by Republicans.

Perhaps you don't remember, but in 1980 and 1990, Republicans complained about gerrymandering a lot.

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

Despite the Senate Republicans» attempts to marginalize her through partisan gerrymandering, she will prevail in any primary or general election with the full support of her Conference and our partners.»

Obviously gerrymandering is not a new concept, but it seems that all the news I hear about it is related to Republicans trying to suppress liberal (particularly urban and low - income) voting groups.

Republicans, who have used gerrymander to retain Senate, are a full party to any bad laws passed in NY State during 69 of past seventy years!

It is true that Republicans have gained some seats by gerrymandering.

Or did gerrymandering after the 2010 census give Republicans an edge in the House of Reps?

Also, this has to sting for the Senate Democrats, to whom Cuomo has not only refused to commit to supporting in their quest to win back the majority this fall, but arguably has actively screwed by working closely with the Senate Republicans and signing their gerrymandered redistricting plan into law.

If that's true, Republicans would still be favored, since 1) the president's party usually loses seats in a midterm, and 2) older, more - conservative voters tend to actually show up (then of course, there's the gerrymandering).

Republicans turned their new state legislative majorities into laboratories of right - wing extremism — attacking women's right to choose, busting unions, gerrymandering Republican congressional districts, and so much more.

With Republicans controlling both state chambers, the congressional delegation was expected to remain at six Republicans and one Democrat, which was not lost on critics, who alleged racial discrimination and political gerrymandering.

Former Gov. Martin O'Malley recently acknowledged during testimony in a gerrymandering lawsuit that his intent was to «create a district where people would be more likely to elect a Democrat than a Republican.»

Gerrymandering, which can be traced back to at least 1788, has resulted in 69 of 99 state legislatures and both houses in 35 states to be controlled by Republicans in a country in which both parties are pretty evenly represented, with Democrats slightly ahead.

He promised to make the state's redistricting process free of politics and then signed off on Senate Republicans» obscene gerrymandering.

And with Republican - controlled gerrymandering slashing our state into incoherent districts, our blue - leaning population is governed by red - leaning legislators.

For Democrats to complain of gerrymandering is «pure nonsense,» said Matt Walter, the Republican committee's president.

The product is the «hyper - partisan,» in his words, lines which LATFOR, the state's legislative redistricting arm, came out with, that gerrymander the districts in such a way as to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and the Democratic majority in the Assembly.

At a Republican gathering Sunday evening, City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) criticized the Democratic leadership in the state Assembly for redrawing legislative boundaries in a way that gerrymandered part of one northeast Queens district and minimized the voice of GOP voters.

And that would be possible if 1199 actually tried to help senate Democrats in Nassau and Suffolk counties, where several toss - up races this fall will determine the makeup of the upper chamber, and where Republicans have held sway through a mix of gerrymandering and weakened opposition.

Later, when Avella charged that Senate Republicans «have done something absolutely disgraceful» in gerrymandering district lines to protect their majority, Nozzolio fired back.

Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) submitted a map to the Democratic - controlled Legislature, which passed it even with unanimous Republican dissent over concerns over racial gerrymandering.

He delivered a riveting talk on how the Republicans took over in 2010 by using computer modeling to gerrymander and steal elections.

Although the number of registered Democratic voters in NY State is more than double the number of Republicans registered, the state legislature, through gerrymandering, «fake Democrats» and backroom politics has remained under Republican control.

During its breezy 77 minutes, Gerrymandering covers the history of the practice, how it is used and abused, and how it benefits both major political parties, Democrats and Republicans.

Oh great... the Democrats will create «fair» districts in New York, while in Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio the Republicans will gerrymander their way into a permanent majority.

Like, if the Republicans continue to control the Senate thanks to a Cuomo - approved gerrymander plus five defections that the governor was perfectly OK with, and then over the course of the next couple of years their conference blocks campaign finance reform and drug reform and a hike of the minimum wage, doesn't it become somewhat more difficult for Cuomo to explain to Democratic primary voters why he didn't just do something about it?

She said Cuomo encouraged a «backroom deal» to get a group of Democratic senators to vote with the Senate GOP so that Republicans could keep control of the state Senate and added that he allowed the Republicans to draw their own gerrymandered district maps — a move she says suppressed Democratic voters.

Also, — Republican entered the 2002 election with brand - new gerrymandered districts to protect their 10 incumbents.

Cuomo is being cynical and deceptive, saying he supports important legislation like a minimum wage increase but making sure it will never happen by backing Senate Republicans (who won 42 % of the vote statewide yet could control the Senate only because of the gerrymander supported by Cuomo & Assembly Democrats.

If you have issues with these lines, understand gerrymandering is not only Republican.

But to create that independent entity means passing a law, something that State Senate Republicans, clinging to a narrow, gerrymander - aided majority in that chamber, have resisted as a matter of life and death.

He has boasted about his ability to work with the current Republican leadership, and has been helpful to the conference's efforts to hang onto the majority, from his approval of a majority - gerrymandered district map to his general - election endorsement of a Republican incumbent who had voted for same - sex marriage.

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

Then he allowed the Republicans to gerrymander the Senate district lines in order to try to hang on to a majority even though there are two million more enrolled Democrats in the state.

Sure, if he follows through on his promise to veto their gerrymander, the New York Times editorial board will cheer, but then, for as long as he remains in this particular office, Cuomo will have to live with either a vengeful Republican Senate majority or a dysfunctional Democratic one, which may turn out to be even worse for him.

Democrats not only swept Virginia's statewide races but neared a majority in the House of Delegates, a legislative chamber that was gerrymandered to make the Republican majority virtually unassailable.

The Republican Party controls every branch of the federal government, and has maintained a virtually uninterrupted stranglehold on New York's Senate for a half century, thanks to gerrymandering and Democratic collusion.

«In 2010 Republicans had control of the Senate, and in doing so, were able to gerrymander districts like the 60th District.

Meanwhile, the memory of the 2004 gerrymander is still fresh in our minds, when Tom DeLay and his cronies redrew district lines that flipped the Texas congressional delegation from 17 - 15 Democratic to 21 - 11 Republican.

New York's Republican conference remains solely in power thanks to terribly gerrymandered districts rubberstamped by Cuomo in 2012 and the IDC's gamesmanship.