Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. politics The practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party.
- v. present participle of gerrymander.
Etymologies
- After the US Politician Governor Elbridge Gerry who was associated with a constituency said to resemble a salamander. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Attanasio said that the first time he heard the word gerrymandering was in seventh grade in Schenectady, N.Y.”
“Add to that his last name, Gerry, and the term "gerrymandering" was born.”
“If gerrymandering is responsible for the increase in party discipline, then it would be responsible for the kind of polarization described above.”
Matthew Yglesias » Little Evidence to Support Gerrymandering-Polarization Link
“The issue of partisanship aside, gerrymandering is offensive on its own.”
Matthew Yglesias » Little Evidence to Support Gerrymandering-Polarization Link
“The problem with gerrymandering is not the general election.”
Matthew Yglesias » Little Evidence to Support Gerrymandering-Polarization Link
“This sort of partisan gerrymandering is the exact reason Congress is in the hole it is in.”
“I happen to be a fan of proportional representation, but that it gets rid of gerrymandering is a pretty poor argument for it.”
Matthew Yglesias » Diverse Representation Without Gerrymandering
“People sometimes suggest that gerrymandering is the culprit, but political science disagrees.”
“In these days of super-precise computer mapping, the gerrymandering is getting completely out of control.”
I wonder if Charlie Cook is having that dream. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“Here in Southern Oregon, gerrymandering is the rule, rather than the exception.”
Census Data Suggest More Power for South in Congress - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gerrymandering’.
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Things that Can (and Should) be set O...
The words piano and sister may not appear on this list. It all started on flaming piano.
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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POL - elections
announcement of c..., campaign headquar..., campaign season, campaign staff, campaign strategy, campaign tactic, campaign team, campaign trail, campaigning, candidate, candidate registr..., caucus and 930 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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US - Congress vocabulary
population shift, symbolic represen..., logrolling, pocket veto, personal judgment, pork barrel, televise, elected official, reapportionment, redistribute, cloture, standing committee and 70 more...
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Official Misconduct
Words describing types of misconduct by those in public office.
malversation, embezzlement, peculation, racketeering, jobbery, misappropriation, defalcation, venality, favouritism, favoritism, nepotism, gerrymandering and 44 more...
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POL - cool compounds
scaremongering, facelifting, mudslinging, gerrymandering, goldplating, muscleflexing, headway, pinpointing, hobby-horse, barnstorming, grandfathering, finger-wagging and 31 more...
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Highfalutin Hubbub
Descriptive interjections, intensifiers,sounds, smells and hullabaloo. Fanfare at its finest.
fusillade, Popocatépetl, vexatious, malarkey, miasma, epiphenomenon, dyadic, cavort, lumpenproletariat, gerrymandering, la-di-da, maraud and 8 more...
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miscellany
extrapolate, effluvium, maelstrom, ecclesiastic, potentiate, prestidigitation, verisimilitude, innocuous, octogenarian, interlocutor, proselytize, ubiquitous and 138 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
salvo, taboo, redoubtable, foment, intransigence, disingenuous, infarction, obviate, junta, aetiology, expedited, gerrymandering and 201 more...
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lucidityprevails's Words
lucidity, journalistic, truthiness, foolhardy, egotism, lesbian, orgasmic, activism, moonglow, voodoo, conquer, demolish and 534 more...
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These Words Crack Me Up
caucus, gerrymandering, pigeonhole, squad, madrigal, poo, beaker, egress, booger, pander, ugly, bat and 1 more...
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silly words with sensible meanings
spelunking, lollygag, piebald, windjammer, sideburns, barlafumble, lampoon, battledore, shuttlecock, dragoon, gerrymandering, woggle and 1 more...
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rolls trippingly off the tongue?
words that are fun to say, even if they don't exactly "roll trippingly off the tongue"
trippingly, pendulum, albatross, balderdash, conundrum, calypso, constantinople, incommunicado, indubitably, juggernaut, persnickety, syzygy and 2 more...
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