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Colorado Democrats may benefit from gerrymandering
AP ^ | June 24, 2017

Posted on 06/27/2017 1:43:35 PM PDT by george76

Colorado Republicans cried foul when, after the last U.S. Census in 2010, the state Supreme Court approved a Democratic-drawn map reapportioning the state's 65 House seats.

GOP leaders, including then-party chair Ryan Call, argued the new map packed Republican legislators into individual districts, diminishing their clout, especially in the metropolitan Denver area.

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"Democrats are absolutely benefiting from the current maps, and there's no question they won't continue if the process doesn't change," Call said. "Republicans have not shown themselves to be good at legal challenges. Hats off to the Democratic litigators."

Colorado was one of just eight U.S. states with a Democratic advantage in its lower house districts in the 2016 election

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In Colorado, Democrats won 57 percent of state House seats in November even though Republicans won 50.4 percent of the statewide vote. Democrats won 37 of 65 House seats, theoretically five more than would be expected based on their statewide vote share.

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Colorado's Republican congressional candidates won 51 percent of the statewide vote in November to maintain their 4-3 margin. .

(Excerpt) Read more at postindependent.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; battlegroundstates; colorado; democrats; elections; gerrymandering; republicans; trump; voterregistration
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1 posted on 06/27/2017 1:43:35 PM PDT by george76
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To: MileHi; dynachrome; Balata; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; bravo whiskey; Carley; ColoCdn; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


2 posted on 06/27/2017 1:45:09 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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DU has been chanting “gerrymandering” like it’s a magic spell incantation, but I’m sure they’d approve of it in this case.


3 posted on 06/27/2017 1:52:08 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: george76

When Democrats win, Democrats get to make the calls.

When Republicans win, Democrats get a judge to let them make the calls.


4 posted on 06/27/2017 1:53:08 PM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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“May”???


5 posted on 06/27/2017 1:56:07 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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If the districts all had to follow the simple rule that an equal amount of the district had to be both rural and urban by population, the entire country would be Republican... think about that....


6 posted on 06/27/2017 2:11:38 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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Oh, they are benefiting, and it’s ruining the state. The CO supreme court are leftist hacks. Co republican party are wimps.


7 posted on 06/27/2017 2:11:48 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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[ When Democrats win, Democrats get to make the calls.

When Republicans win, Democrats get a judge to let them make the calls. ]

When we let our own virtues be used against us by people with no virtues at all, we let our virtues become a suicide pact.

We need to have virtues, but we need to stop letting them be used against us.


8 posted on 06/27/2017 2:13:17 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: MileHi

Any objective method of setting up congressional districts will be killed by both parties because it would destroy the establishment.


9 posted on 06/27/2017 2:18:26 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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2018 and on to 2020.

Census and redistrict...


10 posted on 06/27/2017 2:21:00 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Might be, but setting all of them up for democRats is destroying the state. And because of that ‘rats have destroyed voter integrity in the state.


11 posted on 06/27/2017 2:28:22 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

Democrat cheaters promote voter - motor laws to get criminals / illegals to vote.


12 posted on 06/27/2017 2:38:50 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: colorado tanker

Plus ballots are sent to apartment buildings , like in the larger Denver metro - front range , where the tenants often leave / turn over.

Chances that Democrat activists watch for not collected ballots to be filled out later ?


13 posted on 06/27/2017 2:42:08 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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The Secretary of State swears they check signatures against those on file, but I’ve been skeptical of mail voting from the beginning.


14 posted on 06/27/2017 2:53:19 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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I assume Dems in that State are mostly popular on tv?


15 posted on 06/27/2017 3:06:13 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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Exactly, see post #11


16 posted on 06/27/2017 3:16:33 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: george76

Democrats are the ONLY ones that ever benefit from gerrymandering.


17 posted on 06/27/2017 3:20:02 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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RECTANGLE DISTRICT

All Govt representation districts should be rectangular. Size not limited, only shape. That creates equal representation and prevents gerrymandering.

People should demand it.

— TheNext


18 posted on 06/27/2017 4:50:04 PM PDT by TheNext (SLOW FUND Wall = Trump 2020 Trump Jr 2024 Eric 2032)
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Democrats are the ONLY ones that ever benefit from gerrymandering.

Didn't SCOTUS just alter gerrymandering a few days ago?

19 posted on 06/28/2017 2:49:56 AM PDT by Does so (PARIS is like OPEC, except We're Winning!)
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To: GraceG

“If the districts all had to follow the simple rule that an equal amount of the district had to be both rural and urban by population, the entire country would be Republican... think about that....”

If only eligible voters were allowed to vote, the entire country would be Republican.


20 posted on 07/07/2017 1:37:30 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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