“In rabid partisan states that are controlled by Republicans, they're carving up left and right. And we're kind of unilaterally disarming,” Connelly conceded, before adding: “But having said that, I still come down on the side of reforming this process because it's got to start somewhere.”

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unimaginable how good the democrats are at their real jobs, people still vote for this

Traded power for a pledge.

in exchange for a pledge

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Oregon current House representation is 4 Ds and 1 R. I've seen people say it would be difficult to draw the map in such a way that (with their new seat) they'd be 5 Ds and 1 R. Not sure how true that is, but I could possibly give them the benefit of the doubt that they gave this away because it's going to end the same way regardless. Idk, though.

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