This ranks right up there with the dumbest excuses for Dems getting shellacked. Someone else tried this one, I think it had to do with Wendy Davis losing the Texas gov race. Here’s the Raleigh News and Observer’s Rob Christensen
Christensen: Gerrymandered districts denied NC voters a real choice
Last week, North Carolina voters booted out Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in large part because she was tied to her party’s unpopular president.
That’s the first paragraph of the opinion piece. Much of it is whiny in regards to gerrymandering. Because Democrats never ever in their history did that. Especially when they where in primary control of the NC general assembly during the last 100 years, particularly during census years.
Anyhow, perhaps Christensen didn’t mean anything by it, however, when your first paragraph is about a federally elected senator losing because of gerrymandering, well, that is just bat guano stupid.
He does actually have a few good points about gerrymandering, and how it protects incumbents and the party in power. If you want a hoot, go look up what Dems did for Cynthia McKinney in Georgia. But, let’s also remember that Dems do not complain when they are the recipients of gerrymandering.
Oh, and Hagen did not lose because of it. Nowhere in the article did he say anything to make that clear.
Gerrymandering wouldn’t matter in the case of voting for a US Senator because the whole state gets to vote for their US Senators. Gerrymandering is important for the House races and local races.
^^^^ This. ^^^^^
The very concept of “gerrymandering” affecting a Senate race is idiotic on its face. The boundaries of the “district” are the boundaries of the entire state–there’s nothing TO gerrymander.
–Andrew, @LawSelfDefense
Do you know what is dumber than saying gerrymandering had an impact on a statewide office? Lying about it.
Where in the article did the author say that Hagan lost because of gerrymandering?
Maybe you missed it but this line was in the article:
“Do you know what is dumber than saying gerrymandering had an impact on a statewide office? Lying about it.”
Haha, somebody didn’t use enough lube, huh? :-)
–Andrew, @LawSelfDefense
Damn. If only I had written something about the headline and first paragraph of the article!
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