cheer up! why VA redistricting court ruling may not be the end...(dKos)

[msongs]

repub seats from the old map may be in danger of going to dems

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/8/800035672/community/a-brief-explanation-on-the-va-supreme-court-ruling/

[lame54]

1. I don't know what that means but...

Please

[msongs]

2. repubs keep their 4 seats. a blue wave election will flip them anyway without redistricting

[Marie Marie]

3. I hope that you are right.

[FBaggins]

4. Probably only one of them

It’s one thing to call a seat R+3 or R+5… but the Republican won those two seats by 10-15 points. That takes a “wave” to undo. It could happen, but there’s really only one endangered red seat (that they won by 5 Points)

At the same time - redistricting was intended to strengthen two blue seats that were even closer.

There’s no spinning this one. It’s pretty devastating (if entirely predictable)

[PCIntern]

5. Devastating?

No it isn’t. You know what’s devastating? Attribution of what appear to be minor to moderate setbacks to a pattern of LOSING. You know who never does this? Republicans.

That’s how they reemerge from catastrophe: they lick their wounds for 2 or 3 days and come back with redoubled efforts. When are we gonna learn how to respond and put our pedal to the floor?

Enuf pearl-clutching.

“Devastating” is when your candidate dies in a car crash two weeks before an election. And you know what? If you’re a Republican, you find an advantage in that occurrence, blame the “Democrat” Party (sic and sick) and move on and quite possibly win posthumously.

[FBaggins]

6. Yes - the combination of two rulings in one week

Represents a likely ten seat swing. Given how narrow the house has been for a few years now..: that’s a huge impact

Insurmountable? Of course not. A normal off-year result would still give us a majority. But it’s still “something that causes severe damage”

[PCIntern]

7. You used the word "devastating "

I’m positing that the Republican Party lost twice to a black guy, and I didn’t hear that word uttered once by one of their elected officials or commentators.

We fart in a thunderstorm and “all is lost”! Alas!

[FBaggins]

8. And then I gave the dictionary definition showing that it applied

You’re the one pretending that I meant “all is lost”

How about “a gut punch”?