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To be fair, literally everyone (even here, generally speaking) didn’t believe that GA would go blue in the last election, and look what happened. 
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Alaska is one place where Gerrymandering doesn’t play a role, as the entire state is only one house district. So I guess the guy was trying to say that Ranked Choice Voting will turn it blue? In their recent special election to finish the last few months of Don Young’s term the Democrat did win the most votes overall but she still looks likely to lose to Palin with the RCV system. (Final results to be released soon)
Edit to add: that map still shows Alaska being red. So why are we talking about Alaska?
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Meaning they will fight tooth-and-nail against it.
Which only proves it needs to be done.
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I would love to believe I could hop across the border from Alabama to Tennessee and live among moderate neighbors who have unfortunately been disenfranchised by gerrymandering, but I don’t think that’s remotely true. I’m dying to know how he came up with this map.
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And that is a correct conclusion, regardless of the details. If we do maintain the house and up the majority in the senate, voting right has got to be top of the list priority 1.
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It’s in the post… how he came up with the map (which has already been up for debate here, too).
Of course, you could also come to GA… we’re closer to blue than TN and living in and around the ATL is pretty awesome. It’s diverse, blue, has lots of great culture, etc…
I suspect both my senators will be right on that, along with my house rep (likely McBath as of November).
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You of course have every right to be incorrect.
See my post above saying nearly the same thing. Though don’t rule out Alaska, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Utah goes independent. Still conservative but orthoganal to the reactionary GQP.
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I visit Atlanta regularly! My preference is for a smaller city, and I’d like to move to a cooler climate, but Atlanta has all the culture and diversity you could ask for. I fear that the whole red vs blue question ultimately boils down to density, and that I can have a laid back lifestyle in wide open spaces, or sane and sensible politics with tolerant neighbors, but not both.
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I can understand that… though lots of people will say that ATL is a small town pretending to be a big one…
I don’t know… I think that the more sane people move to the places with wide open spaces, the more sane those places will be.
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“this is what fucking fairness will get us!”
The timing of this story is funny- CBC just ran a story that was basically “our politicians are whining about the results of the latest redistricting by the independent commission, but you should see the dumpster fire in the States”. They said it a lot more politely than that because CBC, but this tone is actually pretty strong for them.
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It looks like there’s a really good chance Alaska has turned partly blue for a short while at least: History Made As Congress’ First Alaskan Native Wins Partial House Term
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Awesome that even this panicky, pessimistic (from the RNC point of view) map wasn’t pessimistic enough when it comes to Alaska.
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Whaaa? As usual, NY Dems shot themselves in the foot and we ended up losing potential seats. I’m all for nonpartisan districting, but the only ones playing fair are the ones already losing.
As always, sorry for the Post link, they just had the best brief synopsis.
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I mistakenly listed Alaska. I get your point and I agree that ranked choice may flip some elections (both ways), but regarding electoral politics, it’s meaningless.
My mistake, sorry for the brain fart on Alaska. 
But there were other equally red stats marked as blue. Cheers!
If not for gerrymandering, Wisconsin would have two Dem senators. It’s not a direct effect, but it’s only one step removed and it’s significant.
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I’m kinda impressed Florida stays red. There is just no hope for the wackos who live there.
