It’s North Carolina, according to YouGov.
Now you don’t need to click on a Newsweek link and feel dirty.
North Carolina
16 Electoral Votes
Fuck yes!
Would be nice to get North Carolina back into the blue mix again. The state is Gerrymandered SO HARD that the evenly split congressional map is likely to be wiped out this year, even though there are overall fewer Republicans in the state. This shit needs to be stopped.
Cries in Tennessee. specifically Nashville
I absolutely feel you
Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Texas, Florida and Arizona all have very similar struggles. It’s insane.
The Koch Brothers started this shit in the 1980’s.
It will take more than memes to break the hold.
Make plans to Vote!!!
Does that mean each little area contributes a point to the states total? Is that for local and national elections?
You mean how gerrymandering works? Kind of.
Essentially, US elections don’t go by the populous vote, but rather the number of jurisdictions voting for something. This scenario matters less for the Presidential elections (because of appointed electors), but absolutely affects local>state>congressional elections.
Imagine picking teams in gym class, but one team gets to pick all their players first. That’s the TLDR of gerrymandering.
Sorry, I get gerrymandering, I mean how it works in that state specifically for presidential elections.
In North Carolina, there are more registered Democrats than Republicans in the populous. Republicans were able to gerrymander the districts and skew the demographics so much that it’s almost impossible for a Democrat to win this year, turning the majority control over the the GOP.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/anatomy-north-carolina-gerrymander
I think ABCDE is asking about how this matters for President. Since North Carolina is not Maine or Nebraska, winner takes all. So if you’re right, and more Dems turn out than Reps in NC, then even as NC goes redder in the House, it’ll still deliver its ECs to the Blue…assuming of course the now gerrymandered State government doesn’t call the election stolen and refuses to certify the vote.
I think that’s what we’re going to actually see more of. A partisan power-grab by Conservatives by refusing to listen to the will of the people.
Hey, I just made a post about this the other day! https://lemm.ee/post/39037973
TL;DR: in every state except Nebraska and Maine, the popular vote determines the electoral college vote for the state. So no matter how badly gerrymandered the districts are, the presidential candidate elected by the state is NOT affected!
As a SC resident, it is nice to see both neighbor states turn purple, still red here unfortunately, but i am adding my tiny drop of blue paint to the red bucket this November
Love this sentiment. Honestly I never thought I’d see my home of Georgia go blue. 2020 was a powerful reminder that there is still power in our votes. Keep the pressure up until all of these wannabe fascists are gone.
If anyone from Georgia sees this; you can request a mail-in ballot beginning August 20th! It’s my favorite way to vote because it’s easy and comfortable. The fact that it seems to annoy the fascism party is a really nice bonus too.
It’s unlikely that Georgia will turn blue; Georgia will likely be purple for a long time to come.
There are a lot of Republicans in Georgia that never liked Trump, and still don’t. But Republicans still easily control the House, Senate, and Kemp easily beat Abrams a second time in 2022, when the governors race is a straight popular vote. (What the fuck were Dems thinking in nominating her again, anyways? She lost badly the first time, and lost worse the second. Did they somehow expect a wildly different result?) Ossof and Warnock won originally in part because ‘the election was rigged’, and so Republicans simply didn’t show up to vote in runoff elections.
I do not recommend people use absentee ballots in GA. They’re being sharply limited, and you can expect them to be contested, given that power to certify elections has been taken away from the sec. of state. Yeah, it’s a pain in the ass to vote in person in metro-Atlanta, but that’s a more sure way of getting your vote counted.
Anecdotally, I have not seen any Biden signs or bumper stickers in my area (I’m in Clyde’s district), definitely no Harris signs, but most of the pro-Trump stuff I see looks like it’s been neglected, e.g., yard signs that are falling down and haven’t been re-staked in weeks.
Keep in mind that even in South Carolina, 43% of voters vote blue! Twelve points is a pretty big difference, but there are a lot of Democratic voters even in red states.
Let’s keep up the pressure. No matter where you are: blue state, swing state, or red state, every vote matters because we need a decisive victory up and down the ballot (local elections matter more than people realize)
I love it. Even if you can’t flip your Red State, having your votes means Harris can point to a broad spectrum of support that extends even into deep red places, and you never know. It might just be your vote that flips a city or county seat blue and makes it less likely that you and those around you get caught up in the Reich-Wing attempted coup.
It might just be your vote that flips a city or county
It’s always your vote that flipped the seat; everyone who voted after you just showed up as backup.
I love it!
I’m at least one vote in Florida against team evil and for team Harris…ignore my name, it was from a time when Palin was a threat. Wow life was innocent
It seems like so far ago. And it reminds me I am not a kitten anymore!
You want innocent? Mid 90s, when the worst thing we had to worry about was a blowjob in the Oval Office. Bill getting his knob waxed seems like another whole lifetime!
Yep, plus it helps build momentum for long term change and flips in the future if nothing else. Like Georgia was a solidly red state for a long time until it ended up gaining enough steam to flip
It went from R+11 in 2000 to R+5 in 2008 to D+0.2 in 2020. If every dem voter sat home in the time between, there would have been no chance for that trend to start and there to any serious energy put into flipping it
Conversely, it’s also why voting even in solid blue states still matters to ensure they stay solidly blue
Even TX needed only 5% more registered voters to go blue in 2016 and even less than that in 2020. Every vote counts!
Polls in TX open Oct 21-Nov 1, with one final day of voting on Nov 5. Polls are open at least 9 hours the first week and at least 12 hours during the second week and final day of voting (typically 7AM-7PM during weekdays, though polling stations may differ)
Everything you need to know about the TX elections including voter registration, ballot by mail, dates, polling locations/hours, etc can be found here
Broke: pick Shapiro to secure Pennsylvania
Woke: pick Tim Walz to secure a 50-state sweep
News like this makes me wonder if David Bowie finally reincarnated somewhere on Earth. Everything went to shit in 2016 after he left for his home planet.
If we get peace in the middle east I’ll say Harambe is back.
Let’s fucking go.
Great. But vote in November no matter what.
Photo: Typical Trump making a poopy in his nappy
Now we’re talk’in. This is a hell of a tell.
Kill it Kamala! Wooo!
Oooh, this aughta make him mad. Get ready for the even-more-unhinged posts!
Do bettrr with titles, put the 5 Ws in them.
Or is lemmy.world complicit with clickbait journalism?
And therefore, just another funded media outlet.
Make it a posting rule.
