But in the end, the vote wasn’t even close: 31-19, with 21 Republicans joining all 10 Democrats in opposition. In fact, more GOP Hoosiers voted against the measure than for it.
But in the end, the vote wasn’t even close: 31-19, with 21 Republicans joining all 10 Democrats in opposition. In fact, more GOP Hoosiers voted against the measure than for it.
So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.
Sounds to me like they approved a GOP-gerrymandered map.
That’s not what that sentence is saying. Note the “party-affiliated” qualifier. I checked and according to the first search result I found 25% of Indiana voters are registered Democrat, 31% are registered Republican, and 44% are “unaffiliated”.
Source: https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/in
Dang, literacy sure comes in handy over jumping to conclusions.
I think they mean keeping the current one is also gerrymandered.
Correct.
That is exactly what the sentence is saying, unless you have reason to believe that the politics of the “unaffiliated” are drastically different from the affiliated. Going by your logic you would need to assume that the 44% unaffiliated are all republicans, which is very unlikely.
Certainly it seems to be close to the presidential election results over the last 20+ years, at 58-40-2 for republican-democrat-other, respectively.
Edit: and indeed, if you add up the 2024 congressional results you get 58-39-3 percent.