MSNBC's Chris Hayes had a rather interesting and riveting take on the Electoral College.
Is Hayes uses the idea of cracking and packing districts as a means of explaining how the Electoral College disenfranchises people of color.
"Here's an example. Let's say you have a city. It's 60 percent black and 40 percent white. Here's how you ensure white people stay in charge: divide the city into four voting districts but you put the entire black population in one district, 60 percent of the people, and each district allows one city council member and viola. A majority black city is run by a majority white government," Hayes concluded.
What Hayes is talking about is gerrymandering, the practice of drawing district lines so it favors one political party over another.
The MSNBC host takes issue with district lines, how they're drawn and how people's representatives are chosen.
State political parties determine how district lines, especially federal districts, are drawn.
The state's Democratic Party put Jurupa Valley in Takano's district, despite being heavily Republican, because there's so few Republicans in the rest of Takano's district that it becomes a Democratic strong-hold.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/08/31/msnbcs-chris-hayes-conflates-history-when-explaining-why-the-electoral-college-s-n2552468
Is Hayes uses the idea of cracking and packing districts as a means of explaining how the Electoral College disenfranchises people of color.
"Here's an example. Let's say you have a city. It's 60 percent black and 40 percent white. Here's how you ensure white people stay in charge: divide the city into four voting districts but you put the entire black population in one district, 60 percent of the people, and each district allows one city council member and viola. A majority black city is run by a majority white government," Hayes concluded.
What Hayes is talking about is gerrymandering, the practice of drawing district lines so it favors one political party over another.
The MSNBC host takes issue with district lines, how they're drawn and how people's representatives are chosen.
State political parties determine how district lines, especially federal districts, are drawn.
The state's Democratic Party put Jurupa Valley in Takano's district, despite being heavily Republican, because there's so few Republicans in the rest of Takano's district that it becomes a Democratic strong-hold.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/08/31/msnbcs-chris-hayes-conflates-history-when-explaining-why-the-electoral-college-s-n2552468
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