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@StatisticUrban
Data scientist │ MS in CS, stats, biochemistry │ Current Econ MS student │ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧 Policy-centered tweets about tech, bio, urbanism, economics, & politics
Yeah, the biggest problem with gerrymandering, especially in the modern hyper-polarized era with digital pinpoint accuracy, is how well it works. You really can just draw a map that nets your side 6 seats with almost no drawbacks.
There's been a LOT of cope re: redistricting. Remember: 1) Republicans will likely net seats. 2) Neither side is likely to do a "dummymander". These maps are only valid for 3 cycles. 3) The gerrymander itself will likely not turn off a statistically significant chunk of voters.
Honestly highlights what a pathetic showing this was by Cuomo. He mathematically could not win against any of the other top three candidates.
% of valid ballots that X candidate was included on: Mamdani - 60% of ballots (639,905) Lander - 59% (632,155) A. Adams - 54% (578,794) Cuomo - 46% (489,926) Myrie - 40% (430,071) Stringer - 31% (332,142) Blake - 25% (269,992) Ramos - 14% (154,401) Tilson - 9% (100,215) 1/2
We have no choice but to stan.
Yes that is a good example. We should gerrymander to help Democrats.
I very much doubt that's the case. I'd be willing to bet quite a bit it's a case of incompetence as opposed to intentional malice. The MRI tech running the machine has ~0 incentive to save the company money as opposed to saving a life.
Median household income by state. Despite fast economic growth in much of the South, they still noticeably lag in this metric.
The destruction of the White House Rose Garden is obviously minor in the grand scheme, but it still annoys me.
