{"id":158154,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/158154-democracy-comes-to-michigan-by-david-byrne-reasons-to-be-cheerful","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/158154","headline":"Democracy Comes to Michigan || by David Byrne :: Reasons to be Cheerful","content":"\u003cp\u003e\"After a citizen-led campaign to draw fairer voting maps, this year Michigan voters will finally choose their politicians — instead of the other way around......In the United States only\u0026nbsp;\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/us/politics/redistricting-competition-midterms.html\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; background-color: initial; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(47, 47, 47); transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-family: linotype-sabon, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.22px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400;\"\u003e40 U.S. House seats\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp;out of 435 are considered competitive. Clearly, this is NOT democracy\".....\u003ca href=\"http://reasonstobecheerful.world/democracy-michigan-gerrymandering-voters-not-politicians/?\"\u003eRead more\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"\"After a citizen-led campaign to draw fairer voting maps, this year Michigan voters will finally choose their politicians — instead of the other way around......In the United States only 40 U.S. House seats out of 435 are considered competitive. Clearly, this is NOT democracy\".....Read more","published_at":"2022-07-06T21:35:43-07:00","updated_at":"2022-07-08T21:35:32-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"Newsbytes","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297890-newsbytes"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with Newsbytes on Kudos365. View their post published Jul/06/2022 on Government. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"post","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","likes_count":16,"comments_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Government","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/993-government"},{"name":"Public Interest","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1070-public-interest"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/158154-democracy-comes-to-michigan-by-david-byrne-reasons-to-be-cheerful","headline":"Democracy Comes to Michigan || by David Byrne :: Reasons to be Cheerful","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Newsbytes","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297890-newsbytes"},"datePublished":"2022-07-06T21:35:43-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":16}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Government","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/993-government"},{"@type":"Thing","name":"Public Interest","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1070-public-interest"}]}}