The 4th Congressional District of Illinois includes part of Cook County, and has been represented by Democrat Luis Gutierrez since January 1993.
It was featured by The Economist as one of the most strangely drawn and gerrymandered congressional districts in the country.[1] It was created to contain two majority Hispanic parts of Chicago.
So in those pictures of the districts...The white areas surrounded by the green areas that seems to be downtown areas of major cities...Would it be safe to assume black people live in those areas?
Not black people, Democrats.
Was there a single major urban area that went for McCain, again?
Phoenix. :P
Also, depending where you draw the cutoff for "major," Oklahoma City. It's pretty big, and has a pro sports team now.
Aside from that, IIRC he lost the few major metro areas that Bush won. Which wasn't many to begin with. I think he even lost Salt Lake City.
But yes, I think these maps make it pretty obvious how some fucking nutcakes win and keep House seats.
My home state is awesome. We know how to follow county lines, bitches.
This is what your state looks like when you've got the population of a single coastal city spread out over an area bigger than a good number of countries.
We're basically one or two big towns this side of wasteland.
A soldier, man or woman, could get drunk in Bangkok, wake up in the morning and be married, as will happen sometimes in places like Las Vegas or Bangkok, be killed the next day, and the spouse who was a product of the evening's celebration would have then a right to claim access to come to the United States on a green card.
I will tell you that if [Barack Obama] IS elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al Qaida and the radical Islamists and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11th.
[I pray] that Justice Stevens and Justice Ginsberg fall madly in love with each other and elope to Cuba.
My wife lives here with me, and I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, she's at far greater risk being a civilian in Washington, D.C., than an average civilian in Iraq.
[Union organizers] are economic weapons of mass destruction.
There probably are not 72 virgins in the hell [al-Zarqawi] is at. And if there are, they probably all look like Helen Thomas.
Yeah . . . Sorry about Bachmann guys. I tried, I mean really, I even voted in my parents district rather than my own so that I'd be able to vote against her. But when the entire area is inhabited by single-issues voters and ignorant Palinites, and the only opposition is a guy named Tinklenberg . . . it was kind of a losing battle.
Yeah . . . Sorry about Bachmann guys. I tried, I mean really, I even voted in my parents district rather than my own so that I'd be able to vote against her. But when the entire area is inhabited by single-issues voters and ignorant Palinites, and the only opposition is a guy named Tinklenberg . . . it was kind of a losing battle.
King claimed that history showed McCarthy to be "a hero for America".
In mid-January 2009, King acknowledged that terrorists were not dancing in the streets, and in fact "They have made statements against Obama." He also said that he found Obama’s decision to use his middle name, "Hussein", when he is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009, to be "bizarre" and “a double-standard."
The 4th Congressional District of Illinois includes part of Cook County, and has been represented by Democrat Luis Gutierrez since January 1993.
It was featured by The Economist as one of the most strangely drawn and gerrymandered congressional districts in the country.[1] It was created to contain two majority Hispanic parts of Chicago.
The insanity of the politics is represented by the districts.
(Actually, Luis Guitierrez just needs a district for the hispanics to stay with the establishment. It's pretty cut and dry as far as political motivation goes.)
You know that the last time I had cigarette, I smoked half a pack of cigarettes and drank a fifth of scotch on the roof of some random apartment, listening to this version of the footloose soundtrack at four in the morning.
Strangely comforting.
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I'm philosophically okay with weird-looking boundaries that serve to unite minority groups into large enough blocks to control a house seats, rather than being spread out and outnumbered across a large number of more aesthetically pleasing districts.
From what I remember, that's not as crazy as it looks.... I think the giant cut-out in Adams there is the Denver airport, which is...part of Denver. And the rest of it covers (most of) the bigger Denver suburbs.
Though I'm from Texas, so my perception of gerrymandering may be a bit skewed.
Bachmann kind of looks like a grade school music teacher to me. Well, a former grade school music teacher who was fired for devouring her student's souls.
I went to college in Saint Cloud, which is in Crazy Creepy Lady's district. Very Catholic, very single-issue-Pro-Life area. I imagine the more rural portions of her district are even worse.
Oh well, that there are crazy Republicans in Congress is inevitable. That they are incredibly entertaining (by accident) is not, so we should appreciate the gifts we have been given.
The college is the most left part of the district, then it just radiates out into crazy super republicanism.
And even the college has some hardcore right factions. Just step into the business building, speaking of reeducation. It is basically free market fundamentalism combined with "culture warrior" nutters.
Luckily I get to chill in the awesome anthropology dept, which is far away from the business majors. It is unfortuantly close to some of the criminal justice dept though. And all they want to do is bash some hippy heads. :.(
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Nope.
Those districts are pretty straight-forward.
Some might say....
...ironically straight...
Phoenix. :P
Also, depending where you draw the cutoff for "major," Oklahoma City. It's pretty big, and has a pro sports team now.
Aside from that, IIRC he lost the few major metro areas that Bush won. Which wasn't many to begin with. I think he even lost Salt Lake City.
But yes, I think these maps make it pretty obvious how some fucking nutcakes win and keep House seats.
This is what your state looks like when you've got the population of a single coastal city spread out over an area bigger than a good number of countries.
We're basically one or two big towns this side of wasteland.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
heheheh....Tinklenberg.
This guy is crazy but at least it's fucking hilarious
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So, were those quotes originally written in crayon on a paddle wall, or what?
The insanity of the politics is represented by the districts.
(Actually, Luis Guitierrez just needs a district for the hispanics to stay with the establishment. It's pretty cut and dry as far as political motivation goes.)
Of course it may also be for the hispanics
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gerrymandering!
What?
From what I remember, that's not as crazy as it looks.... I think the giant cut-out in Adams there is the Denver airport, which is...part of Denver. And the rest of it covers (most of) the bigger Denver suburbs.
Though I'm from Texas, so my perception of gerrymandering may be a bit skewed.
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She is a nutto.
She is set to speak at St. Cloud State University with her "Global Warming Expert" later this week.
... I need to move.
but they're listening to every word I say
The college is the most left part of the district, then it just radiates out into crazy super republicanism.
And even the college has some hardcore right factions. Just step into the business building, speaking of reeducation. It is basically free market fundamentalism combined with "culture warrior" nutters.
Luckily I get to chill in the awesome anthropology dept, which is far away from the business majors. It is unfortuantly close to some of the criminal justice dept though. And all they want to do is bash some hippy heads. :.(
but they're listening to every word I say