Governor called referendum after president urged GOP-led states to redraw maps to protect House majority
Voters in Virginia on Tuesday approved new congressional maps intended to boost Democrats’ chances of retaking the House of Representatives, in the latest blow to Donald Trump’s effort to use mid-decade redistricting to preserve his control of Congress.
The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas’s Republican-controlled legislature to redraw that state’s congressional maps in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections.
California voters retaliated by approving new maps that could flip five Republican-held seats, and in Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, the newly elected Democratic governor, backed an effort to redraw her state’s maps following her January inauguration. Tuesday’s referendum could help Democrats win four additional House seats in November’s midterm elections.
As a Texas, I’m all for Ken Paxton sucking everyone’s nuts, but why him, in particular? I feel like I might already know the answer, but I’m too overwhelmed by everything here to solve this puzzle.
Edit: reread the actual article title. Tit-for-tat with Texas. Got it. Yes, fuck us indeed.
It’s understandable. Your job as a fartographer has to be so time consuming. The sheer amount of data to pour through must be overwhelming.
To pore through
The ones who pour through their data would be the diarrheographers, and I guarantee that you don’t wanna meet one of those.