Can we confidently say that gerrymandering gives this many seats to this party? Or is it super convoluted? Is as much of a big deal as I remember it being in my high school gov class?

  • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    In the 2018, 2020 and 2022 House elections, the winning party's victory margin in the popular vote was within 1% of their victory margin in terms of seats, so the pronounced GOP-favouring effects we saw between 2010 and 2016 seem to be fading. Right now gerrymandering is probably more of an urgent problem at the state level.

    • machiabelly [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Thanks for the update. This answers the implied question of, did the dems really fuck up that bad? And the answer was yes

    • LamontCranston [any]
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      2 years ago

      States they have taken control of are def also gerrymandering Congressional seats.