Gerrymandering Kept GOP Midterm Losses to a Minimum

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Gerrymandering Kept GOP Midterm Losses to a Minimum

March 21, 2019 at 2:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 88 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/21/gerrymandering-kept-gop-midterm-losses-to-a-minimum/

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An Associated Press analysis finds that Republicans won about 16 more U.S. House seats in the 2018 midterms “than would have been expected based on their average share of the vote in congressional districts across the country.”

“In state House elections, Republicans’ structural advantage might have helped them hold on to as many as seven chambers that otherwise could have flipped to Democrats.”

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[customerserviceguy]

1. I have no doubt about that

And we will face exactly the same districts next year.

If the SCOTUS rules that the citizenship question can appear on the 2020 Census, then we may be screwed for another ten years.

[Blue_true]

2. Doesn't matter, their days are numbered. The wind is in our sails.

We just have to avoid slicing up our own sails.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. gerrymandering, voter suppression, Russian money and meddling

GOPers despise democracy.

Educate the electorate.