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Update on redistricting with some numbers from Strength In Numbers here www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

newyorker.comWho Won the Redistricting War?Democrats and Republicans are in a race to the bottom—and the worst consequences will extend far beyond next month’s midterms.

10/10/26, 2:25 pm15 reposts115 likes

G Elliott Morris

@gelliottmorris.com

I have now read this article, which I was pleased to be interviewed for, and am actually quite dismayed at the both-sidesing of the issue at hand. It is true that “both Dems and Reps gerrymander“ (paraphrasing) but to equivocate the 2 and make that the central framing in 2026 does a real disservice

G Elliott Morris

@gelliottmorris.com

Would recommend consuming something like this discussion instead www.the-downballot.com/p/gop-gerrym...

the-downballot.comGOP gerrymandering just keeps getting worseListen now | And Kevin Morris explains how SCOTUS brought us here

Jeff Norman

@jeff2ffs.bsky.social

Articles like this miss the larger point of motivation. Republicans are gerrymandering *against* democracy, against being accountable to voters. Democrats are (largely) counter-gerrymandering to protect democracy. Of course they're also self-interested...but I'm not so cynical to imagine that

Jeff Norman

@jeff2ffs.bsky.social

the stakes aren't quite visible to Democrats. Republicans clearly want to make elections entirely gestural, and the Democrats into a permanent Washington Generals.

Jeff Norman

@jeff2ffs.bsky.social

The way California carefully structured its redistricting, making it obvious that it was entirely in response to Republican gerrymandering and dependent upon it, ought to make this clear.

truth-is-truth.bsky.social

@truth-is-truth.bsky.social

Yes. When people come at me with both sides gerrymander, both sides lie, or both sides are corrupt, I tell them: "A 3.2 and a 7.8 are not the same just because they're both earthquakes." Scale and scope matter, and one side is orders of magnitude worse.