Virginia House, that major state, where the r*tfcker thinkers of Southern fascism grew, is no longer Republican. By one vote. Voting matters.

[Robert Mahnke]

It's not just gerrymandering. If most Democrats live in cities with other
Democrats, you can get some districts that are overwhelming Democrat and
more districts that lean Republican without having to work too hard to
gerrymander. The same thing happens in the Senate, where many states have
two Senators despite having populations of less than Los Angeles County.

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I forgot to mention that Dem votes over Repubs in the recent Virginia
> election were 200,000. Out of over 2, 500, 000 cast. You can figure out the
> strong majority percentage but you also need to learn how gerrymandering,
> of course done by Repubs....
> has made high the hurdle Dems need to even get to 50-50 in the House....
>
> yes, 'scraping by"...
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:42 PM, <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It’s pernicious to suggest that minor political parties and candidates be
>> barred from participating in elections, and especially worrying when it’s
>> offered from an ostensibly progressive viewpoint. When, even if it could
>> somehow be proved that it would have a demonstrable effect, do you apply
>> the metric of necessity for marginal candidates to exempt themselves for
>> the “greater good?” Just now in trump times, or as a matter of course?
>>
>> To my view when you win/lose by a single goddamn vote, that’s hardly a
>> resounding affirmation or renunciation of either platform. Dems should not
>> be patting themselves on the back for scraping by as the preponderance of
>> citizens’ wealth is being gutted, environmental regulations dismantled,
>> federal courts packed with literally incompetent sycophants. It might be
>> just barely enough right now to run on the “we’re not them” platform
>> against pedophiles and hyperventilating nationalists, but it won’t work
>> forever, nor is it right. The onus is on them to appeal to the nation at
>> large, not Jill Stein/whatever harmless half-crank politician wants to
>> appeal to a hyper-minority to take one for the team.
>>
>> > On Dec 20, 2017, at 1:42 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > I would say you are a much more useful  than Stein when it comes to
>> being used by those who would undermine the first amendment and continue
>> fascistic wars of aggression and who want to revive McCarthyism. But I
>> don’t support the use of personal insults like idiot, which is a
>> meaningless word at this point with origins in the mockery of disabled
>> people, which is the kind of thing that Trump does.
>> > Jill Stein doesn’t like war, she wants health care for all and green
>> economy. That is why she is hated. Tell me why those are bad ideas.
>> >> On Dec 20, 2017, at 7:52 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hey, Joseph Tracy!
>> >>
>> >> By your lights, would Jill Stein count as a useful idiot?
>> >>
>> >> Jerky
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Jill Stein wasn't on the ballot.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:02 PM
>> >> Subject:
>> >> To: Me at G <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/943211847465033728
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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