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Only a fraction of House seats are competitive. Redistricting is driving that lower (www.npr.org)
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Fewer congressional contests are expected to be competitive this fall, compared with past election cycles, and experts say the extraordinary mid-decade redistricting efforts initiated by President Trump are largely to blame.

Fewer competitive seats means the overwhelming majority — more than 90% — of congressional races will pretty much be decided during primary elections, which see far fewer voters participate than general elections.

"Right now, we only rate 18 out of 435 races as toss ups, which means that less than 5% of Americans will truly be deciding who's in control of the House," David Wasserman, senior elections analyst for the Cook Political Report, told NPR.

This disparity in the voting power of Americans in congressional races has been a worsening problem for several election cycles.

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[–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I'll break it down for you. It's unclear what position you are taking and if you are being sarcastic and which points you are bring sarcastic about. All of them ?

You can use "s/" to denote sarcastic points at the end of comments to clarify. Don't expect people to read your mind from across a screen. They can't anymore than you can.

-Not to worry - our lefties won’t vote anyway.-

Criticizing lefts, typically from more extreme leftist, libertarians, or anarchists.

-iT’s tHe DeMoCrAtZ fAuLt! Bourgeoise oppressor swine-pigs!-

Criticizing entire party affiliation as being fascist because they are the rich class (no one is rich except Republican billionaires), typically from an extreme leftist or from maga side.

-trump 4 lyfe!- Supporting fascist regime , typically from maga

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, that’s confused it more than I thought possible! Well done.

    Here, you seem to be struggling a little bit so let’s make it super simple. My position is: everyone who can vote should vote. Furthermore, my position is that voting in numbers that defeat trump is of paramount importance.

    That it could be considered to be not just other than that, but several wildly different others in the context of this comm on this platform at this time is . . . impressive.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Well you are the one with the downvoted comment that no one understood.

    Other people can't read tone in text. Or see facial expressions.

    Your text was unclear. I took the time to explain why and you got mad. Ok fine. I will just not help you out next time.

    I guess thanks at least for finally explaining yourself.

    Your point was not clear in the original text. And I explained why.

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