Gerrymandering Quotes

• Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

  Barack Obama

  Play, Political, Incentives

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the news has somehow become gerrymandered and is continuing to be gerrymandered in America.

  Trevor Noah

  America, Voting, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Incluso en la época de Madison, la práctica del gerrymandering para obtener ventajas partidistas era conocida. A finales de los años ochenta, se afirmaba que Patrick Henry había intentado expulsar al propio Madison del Primer Congreso. El término se acuñó durante la presidencia de Madison, para burlarse de Elbridge Gerry, gobernador de Massachusetts, que en 1811 aprobó un distrito electoral que, según se decía, se parecía a una salamandra.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  Practice, Looks, Massachusetts

  "Drawing the Line". www.newyorker.com. March 6, 2006.

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• Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place - people talk about gerrymandering and the money that's in politics, this is a real thing, a real effect - and it's hard for climate change-denying legislators to get voted out. But I predict it will happen.

  Bill Nye

  Real, People, Climate

  "Bill Nye tackles climate change, solutions in new book Unstoppable". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. November 11, 2015.

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• The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

  Richard Carrier

  Cristiano, Religión, Ateísmo

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