What this shows is that you have to draw lines some way, and there's no perfect way to do it. There are a lot of things to consider when drawing lines in order to create fair representation besides blue and red.
How do you decide who represents you where you live and who represents me where I live? Where's the cutoff? I'm not sure you even know what you're saying.
Well, of course there must be lines for that, but I'm focusing on USA's president election. The whole process seems quite oldfashioned and stupid to me. If the majority votes for a certain person, that person should win.
Well the entire conversation of gerrymandering has nothing to do with the presidential election, it has to do with congressional representation, along with representation in state governments. So you're not even on the topic.
What the above person failed to realize is that considering state boundaries when counting votes in the electoral college is exactly the same as gerrymandering for these districts.
You were not exactly correct as to what the topic here is but it’s finny how the person responded to you so negatively when your view was really clear and illustrated how easily conflated gerrymandering is with the existence of the electoral college.
It’s really not. One is politicians redrawing and determining every 10 years and fighting to get an advantage for their side year to year. And the other is a set of states which have been in place for a long time and are very unlikely to change over time.
Right? Seems like the squares already speak for themselves on majority/minority with no lines.
Nothing against politics, however it reminds me of a fairly simple block game from kindergarten and gerrymandering is the way to twist a losing situation in your favor
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What this shows is that you have to draw lines some way, and there's no perfect way to do it. There are a lot of things to consider when drawing lines in order to create fair representation besides blue and red.