Not all the races are called yet, but state-wide Texas was +5 or +6 Dem in down ballot races like Lt Gov, railroad commissioner, & AG. Yet it looks like 60-70% of the 38 US house seats will remain Republican. That’s still gerrymandered AF.
The headline and reference to flipped seats make it seem like their gerrymandering didn’t work… It just didn’t work as well as it could have.
A +1 win and a +11 win have the same outcomes (absent court fuckery, which is still possible).
The gerrymandering will still be a problem over the next 2-6 years if the Dems look like they’ve done nothing, and everyone forgets that the problems with the Republicans don’t stop with trump.
The gerrymandering will still be in place for '28. The new Dems have 2 years to use their newfound soapbox to push the party forward.
Not all the races are called yet, but state-wide Texas was +5 or +6 Dem in down ballot races like Lt Gov, railroad commissioner, & AG. Yet it looks like 60-70% of the 38 US house seats will remain Republican. That’s still gerrymandered AF.
The headline and reference to flipped seats make it seem like their gerrymandering didn’t work… It just didn’t work as well as it could have.
A +1 win and a +11 win have the same outcomes (absent court fuckery, which is still possible).
The gerrymandering will still be a problem over the next 2-6 years if the Dems look like they’ve done nothing, and everyone forgets that the problems with the Republicans don’t stop with trump.