Eugene Daniels: Voters Are Now Willing to Try New Things, These Republican States Will End up with ‘Dummymandering’

‘Where you cut up things so much that at the end of the day, you have messed yourself up’

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DANIELS: "And the why matters because it’s — something that’s really important about this is that gerrymandering forces you to convince yourself that the voters are going to behave the same way they have in the past. And what we have seen over the last few cycles is that voters, Democrat, Republican and independent, are willing to try new things because of how terrible things are going in this country for them, especially low income folks. And so you can’t draw things expecting those voters to do the same things. You can, but then what’s going to happen in November may not be what you think. And if you talk to experts on this, it’s called dummymandering, where you cut up things so much that at the end of the day, you have messed yourself up. And there are a lot of these Republican states have been gerrymandering for so long that that’s where they’re going to end up.” 

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