When Tricia Cotham was a Democrat, she was married to Jerry Meek, former head of the NC Democratic.Party. After she got divorced, she started dating Tim Moore--a Republican who was the Speaker of the NC House--and switched to being a Republican. She votes what ever way she thinks will impress the person with whom she is romantically involved.
Sadly, the only way to get rid of Gerrymandering is for everyone to get rid of it by establishing non-partisan comittees to draw the lines. California tried to do that and Texas responded by making their Gerrymander even more partisan. Right now Gerrymandering is a Republican technique that Democrats would be foolish not to use. I hate nuclear weapons, but I do not want the US to unilaterally disarm. Conservatives love Gerrymandering. When the South was Democratic, Republican areas were Gerrymandered into oblivion. This isn't a D vs R issue, it is a Conservative v. Liberal issue. If Conservatives could get away with it, the only people who would be allowed to vote would be those who could trace 100% of their male ancestry to persons who appeared on voting rolls in the 1860 election. You know, the last "free election," before liberals starting handing out the franchise like it was a transfer pass on a crosstown bus.
Nothing new.
Trump/RNCC spent a shit ton of money on the challengers to send a message to every other legislator in the country. There is no way an individual state legislator can raise the funds to go toe-to-toe with the RNCC unless a benefactor decides to counterprogram.
And this also gives the lie to the notion that Republicans don't like gerrymandering. They are perfectly happy with it as long as it benefits them. What they don't like are Democrats trying to respond in kind in blue states. That's what they're really opposed to - as long as they're the ones doing it then it's fine with them.
I seriously doubt it, as the state is already pretty heavily gerrymandered, and while Obama actually carried Indiana in 2008 (by about 1% of the vote), the state has become a solid red bastion since Trump's election in 2016. It seems clear that Indiana Republicans are still willing to do whatever Dear Leader tells them to do, and that they're fine with pretty much gerrymandering Democrats out of existence there.
