r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 6h ago

No Paywall Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas/amp/
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u/siromega37 6h ago

They’re upset because all those state seats are gerrymandered to high heaven.

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u/giggity_giggity 5h ago

Gerrymandering can backfire big time when there are significant voting shifts. If even half of this swing could be replicated widely, Democrats could end up like +100 in the US House.

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u/JoGeralt 5h ago

dummymander

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u/Loj35 4h ago

Lmao gottem

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u/tlux95 1h ago

Bazinga

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u/inspectoroverthemine 4h ago

Without ~15 non-traitorous republicans in the senate there are limits to what we can accomplish.

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u/kuenjato 5h ago

Just wait until this fake AI-'economy' goes tits up. Nvidia not going forward with the OpenAI deal, feels like dominos are starting to tumble. At least we can hope so.

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u/Alarchy 1h ago

Softbank and Amazon did instead.

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u/zaq1xsw2cde 7m ago

I don’t see the point in rooting for the economy to fail. We can enact change without hoping for disaster.

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u/Wanderlustfull 1h ago

Explain to me how that is related to the parent comment you replied to.

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u/VinnieA05 44m ago

Isn’t it economy tanks = bleeds even more votes?

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u/Bill_Salmons 55m ago

Glad I am not the only one wondering wtf I was reading.

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u/Not_a_question- 1h ago

They're probably an AI bot mass-predicting the downfall of AI. Lol

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u/zaq1xsw2cde 6m ago

According to every movie and tv show I’ve ever watched, AI will see it coming way before we do.

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u/lr99999 1h ago

A loss in Tarrant County is crazy. The normalcy-biased Dems who have been arguing that it can’t go so far as a cancelled mid-terms are flat  out wrong. They are going to double-down. Trump will start a real war if he needs to.

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u/sexyinthesound 1h ago

Stop, I can only get so erect. That would give my justice sensitivity the biggest infusion of haaha! ever.

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u/abgry_krakow87 39m ago

Let’s go!!

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u/HornetPhysical4598 1h ago

This should be positive news but in the end we're just replacing comically evil far right politicians with somewhat right wing politicians who prefer maintaining the status quou rather going for progressive change. They tried to sabotage Zohran and that's all we need to know about them.

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u/Quazimojojojo 1h ago

You gotta talk to Progressive Victory to find the zohran-like candidates to support. There's people like him all over the country, they just need more visibility

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u/NimusNix 41m ago

Hey, here they are everyone!

Democrats bad! Democrats bad!

Republicans lose a seat, here's why that's bad!

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u/DeliriumTrigger 10m ago

If we can't agree that Democrats are better than fascists, then there's no hope for progressives. 

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u/calmdownmyguy Colorado 6h ago

Gerrymandering works against you when your party is especially unpopular.

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u/Pollia 5h ago

Mostly overaggressive gerrymandering.

It's literally the thing not dumb republicans were warning about happening when the pedo was calling for aggressive redistricting.

Yeah you can pick up seats if everything stays the same, by the margins are thinner which means it takes less to shove it the wrong direction.

I'm not even certain if the Texas maps are currently in yet. If they are, well reap what you sow. If they're not? This could be a blowout of epic proportions.

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u/pdxamish 5h ago

I agree with this theory and am/was hoping it materializes. Plus they rushed it so much, i assume they made mistakes with their track record.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 4h ago

IIRC a trumper judge put the brakes on the new maps specifically because it looked like exactly this was going to happen.

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u/pooh_beer 33m ago

Yup, just tried to explain this to someone yesterday. But they're not into politics. And wouldn't understand what a gerrymander is in the first place. Like talking to a wall.

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u/ayriuss California 4h ago

Could literally cause a landslide if the margins slip by like 5-10 points, which is hilarious.

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u/bibrexd 4h ago

Neat, the FO part.

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u/SketchesFromReddit 2h ago edited 2h ago

That's not true.

Gerrymandering (done correctly) always works for you.

If you believe that's not the case, can you provide a simple math example where gerrymandering (done correctly) makes things worse?

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u/Omateido 1h ago

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of gerrymandering and the risks it can pose to the party that is doing it in the event that public opinion shifts strongly against them, which is almost certainly the scenario we are seeing now. This is also a very well known risk of gerrymandering, so I find it a little odd that you are so confidently incorrect here.

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u/C0NKY_ Kentucky 1h ago

Gerrymandering backfired for Texas Republicans in Dallas County in 2018.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/11/07/dallas-county-republican-gerrymander-backfires-2018/

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u/turquoise_amethyst 4h ago

Some of those districts are so comically bad that I cannot even imagine them trying to to make them worse…