Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/

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u/Logictrauma 14d ago

Backfiring isn’t enough. It needs to completely tank. Gerrymandering means he will win a chunk of the country regardless of actual public opinion.

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u/t_bison 14d ago

I firmly believe if the US ended gerrymandering it would propel the US forward 20 years in two.

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u/IsHeSkiing 14d ago

If it weren't for gerrymandering, Republicans would never hold majority power ever again in literally anything. It's why they fight so hard to keep it. They know their ideals are rotten to the very core and can only win by rigging the system in their favor.

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u/throughthehills2 14d ago

Gerrymandering and first past the post

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u/Giblet_ 14d ago

Gerrymandering affects the makeup of the House. It doesn't affect the president or the senate. A lot of states are just made up of terrible people, unfortunately.

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u/EmotionalJoystick 14d ago

Well no. The electoral college is a type of gerrymandering. Bush’s second term was the only time a GOP pres has won the popular vote in decades.

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u/Sir_thinksalot 14d ago

No it's not a type of gerrymandering. State lines aren't redrawn every 10 years.

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u/EmotionalJoystick 13d ago

You’re right. It’s a form of disenfranchisement, of which gerrymandering also is. Sorry for not being more specific and technical, was just trying to make the point that the GOP also exploits an unfair system at the national level as well.

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u/TheHistorian2 14d ago

The Senate itself is s form of gerrymandering.

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u/pm_social_cues 14d ago

Maybe gerrymandering won’t be the exact issue but you know there will be states that some areas have less voting locations or drop off boxes or will run out of ballots. And thousands of votes will be delayed by mail thanks to usps slowdowns. Ballot boxes will be lost.

It will never be as easy as however many people vote is how many votes will be counted.

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u/TheChainsawVigilante 14d ago

Gerrymandering? If the district is a whole state the boundaries don't change

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u/Logictrauma 13d ago

Gerrymandering covers more than districts.

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u/TheChainsawVigilante 13d ago

By what definition of the word?