I'm really interested to see how gerrymandering has affected state-wide elections. Have republicans re-drawn the borders of your state to exclude your major urban areas? Well I'll be damned, it looks like Charlotte is now part of Virgina for voting purposes, and Milwaukee is now in Michigan!

Idiot.

THANK YOU. The "durrrrr gerrymandering" is becoming the new birther movement for our party. . . Unless the GOP has found a new way to re-draw state borders every census, of course.

Im just going off the polls man. Strategy of how you talk about a plan that's unpopular can go in a lot of directions. My guess is voters don't like negative "repeal it" talking points that lack a solution just as much as they disagree with the object of repeal. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/o…

That's one of those over-simplifications like Mitt Romney's "47% of voters get gifts from the government" excuse that doesn't further the discussion at all. The REAL answer is closer to the President being at an all time low, foreign policy mis-steps, and the declining popularity of the Democrats signature policy…

it has nothing to do with bill, it's his sheeple audience

YESS! why would anyone who disagrees with Maher go on his show with that ridiculous audience? It's like Obama signing up to debate Jerry Falwell at Liberty University. zero benefit

I think you may be tapping into a deeper cultural issue. Simply put, blue voters are reluctant to call red states "home" when they live there, for reasons that go beyond purely politics.

I've grown up in the south my whole life, and I talk to young dems all the time who "can't wait to move somewhere more…

I think there's something there, but wouldn't the same logic apply to Republican voters in strongly Republican gerrymandered congressional and Texas legislature candidates?

It's something for sure, but my point is just to call people out who want to throw their hands up and blame gerrymandering everytime an election…

Eh, I don't think that covers the whole picture. The "personhood definition" was the reference to the Dictionary Act used by the Court.

huh? i dont think you were intending to respond to me.

boring

Unless this guy is a for-profit muslim corporation, there's no link between Hobby Lobby and this case. RFRA is a bat-shit fucking crazy law but Hobby Lobby didn't make it magically applicable to muslim natural persons. It always was. Hobby Lobby just made it applicable to corporations.

unless its a muslim for-profit corporation then I'm not sure it will even make it there. This terrorist dude, like the terrorist dude who successfully invoked RFRA before the hobby lobby decision, has the law on his side. There's not much the courts can do.

Yeah but RFRA got a lot of votes from Dems too when it became law. Its a bit like DOMA. We helped make this happen and, unfortunately, we're the only ones trying to make it right

actually congress broke it. If you read the article, the first time a prisoner used it was before the Hobby Lobby decision. RFRA is a law that provides the argument here. Hobby Lobby was a case that applied the law and interpreted it to apply to for-profit corporations. An idiotic decision, but completely irrelevant…

your comment is non-sensical. My main point is that gerrymandering is a big lark and literally has nothing to do with the current party of statewide office holders in Texas (you can't gerrymander the borders of the state of Texas). It's demographics.

The DNC should quit on statewide elections until demographics…

gerrymandering has nothing to do with statewide elections, of which there are like a dozen with ZERO dems in office. Lt Governor is one of these so your comment doesnt make a whole lot of sense here.

Where was the dude that Tyrese didn't kill from the shed? I missed him.

Did they pan to him around the fire?

within 1 yard. its in the rule I believe

this is no different then a ref telling a basketball player to back up on the free throw to avoid a lane violation. Its a fundamental principle of refereeing in all sports that you avoid calling tick-tack administrative penalties and manage the game to keep it going.