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Is Ms Palin hosting?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl7y8zq5xpno

Whelp, this sucks a bit for the local economy on the state's Eastern Shore. It probably doesn't win any votes for the Orange TACO either. Hopefully it will come back to bite the local Congress Critters. https://www.wboc.com/news/nasa-employees-notified-of-intention-to-close-wallops-visitor-center/article_ef09f97b-1ed9-45b2-b928-d6d35bcbd44a.html It's long been a favorite school trip for both Virginia and Maryland

School’s about to start or has already in nearby districts. Might as well get dark earlier😊 Maybe the later mornings will keep the pup in bed longer

Unfortunately it’s one of the feared outcomes when they repealed the Fairness Doctrine

August 8

My money is Ivanka and Jarred. They’ve been quiet lately, but I think she’s the quiet one. Hubby just might surprise

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/phoenix-new-times-media-bias

Stealing from today's Bulwark

August 7

Just imagine the Faux News and Right Wing TalkRadio outrage if Ms Harris had done this

I'm coming around to consider setting up multi member districts. Michigan is allotted 13 Congress Critters. Divide the state into 5 or 6 regions. Each represented by at least 2 Reps (one would get 3 if 6, 3 would reive 3 if 5). Hold elections using ranked choice or Single Transferable Vote (once an electable threshold was reached extra votes would go to next candidate within the party). It's not perfect but still keeps the candidates regional if not local. Otherwise we're it's very likely to have 13 reps from the same (most populous area) of the state

The bottom line in any attempt to redistrict come down to biases and garbage in, garbage out. I'd prefer to keep the politicians and lawyers out of it.

You realize this map was drawn by Republicans in 2021. When was the last time Democrats controlled the legislature in Texas

i had one close experience and that was enough. Early 70s, I was working at a small radio station in Bedford, Va. The transmitter was in the control room. We had a strike, I saw the bolt come down thru the clock and hit the transmitter while I was on the air. Scary, This was still when transmitters had tubes. The owners dog, an older golden, would sometimes wander into the control room when there were storms. He was laying in there then, somehow he beat me out the door (which swung in)

Especially, the ones who think they are the smartest person in the stadium, but are too lazy to put down their beer to run the team

August 6 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-6

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/08/02/utah-senate-pres-stuart-adams/ Just looking for one honest Republican...

Who gets final approval? Is this ranked choice voting? How about a compromise, especially in states with a large number of reps. Divvy the districts up into multi rep districts. Say cut the number of Congressional districts in half, then create multi member districts with proportional representatives. Something similar to what's being used in Cambridge, MA or Minneapolis. I'm coming around, just need to get the rest of the country on your side

The only way your proposal could possibly fair, inmo, is if you proportioned out the number of reps according to the statewide vote. Which brings me to the next question, who is in charge of choosing candidates to represent the whole state. Are you doing primaries, convention, a big gladiator style competition? The style of gerrymandering you're objecting to has been going on since the birth of the Republic. TBH there is no perfect way unless we outlaw parties or find a way to have more than two competitive parties. And force our reps to compromise

That was the way I was taught representative democracy works. We effectively have what you want and how’s that working for you

To add on. Issues that affect me in SE Virginia may not be the same as those in say Roanoke or Winchester or Charlottesville. I want a rep in DC who looks after my interests and understands MY DISTRICT

In other words choose the party and not the rep? No way man. I may lean Democratic but I reserve my right to choose the best CANDIDATE not the party. You actually expect the average voter in Texas or California to go into the booth with over 100 candidates on the ballot and make a choice to vote for the best 30 or more people to represent them? Aint gonna happen that’s a worse idea than the current way.

But those “plots of land” have actual people living there. I really don’t know if it’s possible just to take a map and draw squares for proposed districts and actually make them equal in population. Multiple representation districts would be a headache as well. How would you do it in states like California or Texas where you would effectively have to choose among say 50 or more people? The average has little clue on who to vote for when there’s more than two candidates sometimes. It would be easier to break up the states onto several smaller fiefdoms