#election maps

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[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I’ve been reading bunch of news articles speculating about the upcoming congressional maps and how Republicans will redraw the districts to give themselves an advantage, and every single one says that they will be able to take a slim majority of 5 or 6 seats.

That’s is a GROSS understatement.

The Republicans will take DOZENS of seats! They took 63 in 2010, and that wasn’t even a redistricting year; 2022 will see them take maybe close to 100 as they get rid of as many Democrats districts as possible. We think gerrymandering was bad before, but in 2013 the Supreme Court struck down a law that required states to get federal approval before changing election laws and regulated their map drawing processes, so now we’re going to get districts so unapologetically unfair that it’ll make you sick! We’ll have districts one mile wide and four hundred miles long, snaking in and around black and brown neighborhoods across dozens of counties to pack as many as physically possible into a single district. We’ll see noncontiguous splotches connected together by thin strips a few feet wide as an afterthought. We’ll see wide disparities between each one’s population, with Democratic districts containing more people so they have diluted representation. It’ll be a shit show, but the Supreme Court ruled separately in 2019 that gerrymandering is not something that can be adjudicated; whether or not it’s legal is up to congress, not the courts, meaning that the 2022 map can be as egregious as the Republicans want it to be, and the Democrats will have no recourse because of partisan gridlock!

Do you really think Republicans will show restraint all of a sudden and ONLY give themselves the exact number of seats they need for a majority? He’ll no! They’re gonna systematically wipe out as many blue districts as they can to ensure they have total control of the House until the NEXT redistricting in 2032. There will be fewer competitive seats, with more guaranteed races for one side over the other. When North Carolina redrew its map last time, a politician said they only wanted to make it 11-2 because they didn’t think it was possible to make it 12-1 or 13-0.

And then you have the senate which skews Republican because smaller states have their voices amplified; Wyoming has the same number of senators as California, despite having 1/70 the population (1.4%). The only Ray of hope is that statewide races can’t be gerrymandered, so presumably Democrats would be able to rally and take control of the Senate if they are disenfranchised and deplatformed in the House, but we all know this is a pipe dream. The country is going down a road towards minority rule; Republicans are a minority in this country, there are more Democrats than and left-leaders, and Democrats have won the nationwide popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections, including the last four in a row (which no party has matched since FDR and Harry Truman took five, 1932, 36, 40, 44, and 48)

We do not live in a functioning democracy when the will of the majority can be silenced. Republicans call themselves the quiet majority, as if they’re the ones who have been oppressed and are preparing to take back what’s theirs, but really they’re the loud minority, and something needs to be done to right our course or we’ll fall headlong into authoritarianism. Power is collecting into fewer and fewer hands, and we cannot let this keep happening.

Democrats could stop it TODAY if they really gave a shit. With 50 votes, 51 with VP Harris, they could overhaul the entire country and make it impossible for Republicans to cheat ever again. Nuke the filibuster, pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, ban gerrymandering, create federal standards for elections, then expand the Supreme Court to get favorable rulings when Republicans inevitably sue. If Republicans will pack the courts using tactics that are “not technically illegal,” then Democrats should absolutely pack the courts right back using 100% legal channels. I’m sick of Republicans taking power with technicalities and loopholes, while Democrats never respond in kind; the rules are broken, and one party doesn’t follow them anymore, so neither is beholden to them.

American liberals are ineffective opposition even when they’re the ones in charge! My God, they’re functionally useless!

[intelligentchristianlady]

Here you go. This is a much more informative Electoral College map than those red-state / blue-state maps that we’ve been seeing--each little square is one Electoral College vote. Thank you, Le Monde!

[polgeonow]

Detailed map of support for independence among participating voters in Catalonia’s disputed independence referendum.

More maps and analysis (free): http://www.polgeonow.com/2017/10/catalonia-referendum-results-maps-detailed-municipalities.html

[niudl-blog]

The Election of 1892 | Illinois During the Gilded Age | Digital Collections and Collaborative Projects | Midwest Historical Collections | NIU Digital Library

Ever wonder which way each state voted in the 1892 election which was a rematch between Former President Grover Cleveland (D), and incumbent President Benjamin Harrison.  The previous election in 1882 gave Cleveland the popular vote and Harrison the electoral college.This map shows how the the states voted giving Cleveland both the popular and electoral win. Making him the first and only President to serve a non-consecutive 2nd term thus far. Notice that a few states voted for the populist candidate, James Weaver.

Maps can contain a wealth of information, and there are a variety of different types of maps.  While we don’t have a specific collection of maps in our digital library, many of our collections contain maps. 

(Other maps in the NIUDL)

[polgeonow]

Catalonia Referendum Results Maps (Preliminary): How Did Each Region Vote?

Two maps and a graph about how Catalonia's regions voted in the 2017 referendum on independence from Spain.

Can’t find any maps of Catalonia’s referendum results? Not to worry - we made two for you!

[imkeepinit]

https://www.core77.com/posts/90771/A-Great-Example-of-Better-Data-Visualization-This-Voting-Map-GIF

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-house-elections.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=E6EE4F0D7736DD77D3A6B61583ADE29D&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL