Yeah, a lot of people don't know in detail how gerrymandering works. For it to work you need to pack as many D voters as possible into a small number of districts and add a few extra R voters to all the remaining districts. You have to dismantle the safe R districts because you need to distribute those voters among the other districts.

In a standard election that works because the Ds get a huge win in a small number of districts and the Rs get a bunch of tight wins in a larger number of districts, so the Rs win.

But, when there's a huge wave election, the small number of R voters they added to districts aren't enough and not only do the Ds get a huge win in a few small districts, they also win some of gerrymandered R districts. There's nothing safe anymore.

If you don't gerrymander, you naturally get some safe R districts, some safe D districts and some toss-ups. But, gerrymandering has to eliminate the safe R districts to shift those voters around.

I'm looking forward to some democrat gerrymandering.

If Republicans thought this was bad

Literally dumb as it is called a dummymander.

Mississippi. Mississippi!

I look forward to MAGA continuing, but let me explain.

Republican voters will continue to primary these extremists that are now showing to be absolutely unelectable. They can't win general elections. This should continue to lock Republicans out of office and allow a progressive movement some foothold.

I hope they hold on to the MAGA grift until it finally kills their party

The peak before the sploosh

if you want to make sure it takes, make a show of beating them up. make them squeal like the filthy pigs they are.

We're not out of the woods yet

Ban gerrymandering and implement ranked choice.

They put voters in cages? 😳

Just went to r/conservative.

Damn, the people there are horrible and quite open about racism being their number one priority. But it is nice to see them despair.

I'm not gonna go myself but I would love screenshots

Im not one of em, Im ecstatic! I feel like im walkin on rainbows or somethin

Plenty of happy old white men today. And black, and brown, and pink, and

I awoke at precisely midnight my time last night. i had to text my wife (timed to arrive between her waking up and going to work) so i could go back to sleep without waking her unnecessarily

I was up way too late last night watching the results. Ive had a huge, stupid grin on my face all day!

Eh, they just switched the right-wingers to a slightly less corrupt one who used to be a member of the same party.

This may temporarily satisfy your urges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOVsdObxjGc

Dr. G talks about Trump's post election body language (and his progressive dementia)

Probably overshadowed by Republicans in the fundraising sector ecstatic at the scale of money they'll be able to skim. Parties don't really lose anything when the lose. They are back in power in 10 years, and they make money in the meantime. And isn't making money the bigger picture? Both parties do this.

The result is that voting does very little to persuade the parties to serve us over their doaners. If they do what their doaners want they make money. If they lose elections they make money. So when picking between doing what doaners want and winning elections, guess which one they are going to do.

AP's map shows which seats flipped, but I'm not sure that's exactly what you're looking for. They don't do a comparison to pre-jerrymandered results.

I'm just gonna hose the whole house down on Sunday.

What?

Like. I don't know how to respond and l don't want to increase your engagement.

If you're the rest of the comments here, these districts all lost far, far beyond gerrymandering.

Everywhere is purple, when you have 66% in deep red areas, you dun' fukd up.