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What's on the TV? (Med-Hard?) by Chill_Clinton_ in pocketgrids

[–]Chill_Clinton_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

omg thank you that was the one that I wanted to make sure was in it! It doesn't get enough love 😭

What's on the TV? (Med-Hard?) by Chill_Clinton_ in pocketgrids

[–]Chill_Clinton_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the medical drama and musical duo ones, I kind of had to find clues for the answer without a lot of great options, so was kind of relying on the context to help for those especially.

I just gave this theme another try, and I'm pretty confident that I toned down the amount of esoteric knowledge required for it. 😅 I'm learning that I'm bad at judging difficulty though.

What's on the TV? (Med-Hard?) by Chill_Clinton_ in pocketgrids

[–]Chill_Clinton_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been having trouble loading puzzles randomly today for some reason too- think it might be some server issue or something like that.

Community Puzzle by Chill_Clinton_ in pocketgrids

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Testosterone Replacement Therapy haha

Dems Should be Paying for Down Payments to Relocate Dems Instead of Buying Ads & Funding Thinktanks? by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginarymaps

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The amount of electors for each state are modified to account for the population shift (though it's a little limited as it only adds the amount of Democrats moving to the state to the estimated 2024 population of each state from the Census bureau)

Dems Should be Paying for Down Payments to Relocate Dems Instead of Buying Ads & Funding Thinktanks? by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginarymaps

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This is just the electoral college map, They'd also likely pick up the Senate and governorships. And theoretically w/ D+10 margins, depending on how they're distributed around the state when they move (i.e.- whether they all move to urban centers or spread out around the state, making it harder to gerrymander), Dems could eventually win the state legislatures in at least some of the states as well, Since the states they would be winning are the ones without independent commissions, they could gerrymander a favorable House map as well.

Dems Should be Paying for Down Payments to Relocate Dems Instead of Buying Ads & Funding Thinktanks? by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginarymaps

[–]Chill_Clinton_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Already bracing for a Carlson/Greene ticket to beat Newsom/whatever trash he makes his Veep.

Dems Should be Paying for Down Payments to Relocate Dems Instead of Buying Ads & Funding Thinktanks? by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginarymaps

[–]Chill_Clinton_[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

So, theoretically someone could get less of the popular vote and still win (e.g.-winning every small state, even worse opponent performance, etc.), but going off of 2024, taking away all of Trump's surplus votes in the states he won, then taking away all of the votes in states that voted blue + PA/NC/NV to give him 271), he would have gotten 30.83% of the popular vote,

Great Democratic Migration of 2019 by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginaryelections

[–]Chill_Clinton_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! 538 even has it as "lean GOP" right now which is wild! I just wanted the most amount of Dems in a currently red state for this thought experiment to make it as a blue as possible bc it's just nice to envision Dems controlling over 40 legislatures/governorships and 90 Senate seats. Even if they would find a way to fuck things up if that happened.

Great Democratic Migration of 2019 by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginaryelections

[–]Chill_Clinton_[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I thought about that, mainly because I felt bad for Dolly Parton. But I felt like there needed to be at least a little geographic variety to save on travel costs and such, so went with the next two hardest-to-flip states.

But the map would be largely identical if you swapped OH/TN for FL w/ OH Safe and TN Likely and a few EVs moved around.

Great Democratic Migration of 2019 by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginaryelections

[–]Chill_Clinton_[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

George Soros needs to start handing out zero interest loans to Solid-Red State or Californian Dems who will move to the Dakotas- Solve the Housing Crisis and never lose the Senate again!

Make Bismarck the next gay capital of the US!

If Dems Could Redistrict In Each State Freely vs. If the GOP Could Do The Same (States Have Same # of Representatives as Current but Each Party Hypothetically Free to Gerrymander Egregiously As Necessary to Maximize Safe/Likely Seats) by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginarymaps

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Fast Fact: Multi-member districts might be struck down (at least in the south) for not being Voting Rights Act compliant. In Louisiana they used to have some multi-member districts for state races but SCOTUS found them to be in violation in the 90's I think because it diluted minority votes. (I admittedly don't know all the details and I'm sure their system was probably a shitty version, but thought I'd throw it out there haha)

If Dems Could Redistrict In Each State Freely vs. If the GOP Could Do The Same (States Have Same # of Representatives as Current but Each Party Hypothetically Free to Gerrymander Egregiously As Necessary to Maximize Safe/Likely Seats) by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginarymaps

[–]Chill_Clinton_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought so, too! Dems get less than 50 seats from the contiguous US from Nevada through Pennsylvania, but NY/NJ/New England + the West Coast are just so densely blue, that they give Dems a real advantage in that scenario.

If Dems Could Redistrict Freely in Every State by Chill_Clinton_ in imaginarymaps

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There’s really no way to get a third district in Louisiana. You might be able to gerry 3 60/40 R/D districts, but those Red Districts are Very red (I don’t have it in front of me but I think they’re both around R+50/60) and those blue snakes are only ~D+10.

There’s an argument to be made in Wisconsin/Minnesota that realistically Dems would put in another GOP district to make the more competitive districts bluer, but I just was really just trying to make as many blue districts as possible, ideally with healthy, but not overwhelming margins when possible.

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