Democrat politicians make me puke

[LtownTaxpayer]

^THIS^
California gets 50 electoral votes. They have a population of about 39 million "residents" of which 10.6 million are non-citizens. They shouldn't be rewarded by giving them extra electoral votes.

This is why the democrats fought so hard to just count the people in the state - not the legal residents and their families in the state. The relevant questions were removed from the census. When the first Trump administration fought to put those questions back in, they were sued. Can you imagine how many seats CA would have lost if the census only counted those who are here legally? They would have taken a huge hit in federal $$$.

 

[somdwatch]

Agree. They are still blue, but Trump was the lesser of the two evils in their minds.

Actually, I firmly believe demographics in the Blue states are waking up to their identity politics. If Trump can successfully deport and create what he did his first term he could potentially break the mold.

 

[Merlin99]

Should. But there’s not much incentive NOT to. And population is not enough.

For example - Southern Maryland makes sense as a single district by itself - except it just doesn’t have enough people. You need about 3/4 million to make it even. So wherr do you “add” them? From Anne Arundel? Or PG? If the first, well, it might vote in a Republican. OR you could just plop Calvert in with Northern PG and St Mary’s in with Charles and Southern PG.

You can SAY it’s just population but you can do it several ways. Some will be “unfair “ to someone.

Now - I’ve seen maps created where districts have clean edges that don’t correspond to known borders but resemble near geometric shapes. Those seem the most fair because the districts have “normal” shapes. Guarantee someone won’t like it.

Some states with very large black populations HAVE succeeded in minimizing the black vote - because the blacks living in the state live almost entirely within one area. It’s not hard to draw lines around those regions - they’ll always elect a black Democrat - and the rest won’t. What’s “fair”?

Let’s explore a new way of apportioning people to congressmen. Instead of setting boundaries assign everyone a number, if you have eight congressmen you are assigned a number between 1 and 8. This way they are working for the states good not their own.

 

[Chopticon64]

^THIS^
California gets 50 electoral votes. They have a population of about 39 million "residents" of which 10.6 million are non-citizens. They shouldn't be rewarded by giving them extra electoral votes.

Where are you getting that 10.6 million figure from? And you do realize Texas and Florida are 2nd and 3rd in the ranking of illegals.

What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.

The unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. grew to 11 million in 2022, but remained below the peak of 12.2 million in 2007.

www.pewresearch.org

 

[Ken King]

Where are you getting that 10.6 million figure from? And you do realize Texas and Florida are 2nd and 3rd in the ranking of illegals.

What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.

The unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. grew to 11 million in 2022, but remained below the peak of 12.2 million in 2007.

www.pewresearch.org

USA Facts - https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-immigrants-are-in-the-us/state/california/

And as usual you skew things for your agenda as nothing I said was about "unauthorized" immigrants, I said non-citizens. Now crawl back under your rock and squat on your ten-year old Christmas Tree.

 

[gemma_rae]

Where are you getting that 10.6 million figure from? And you do realize Texas and Florida are 2nd and 3rd in the ranking of illegals.

You called them ILLEGALS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!