My rant about the GOP being the majority in Congress "they" got there by CHEATING

[Zeitghost]

27. They have drawn maps that favor them

And we have drawn maps that favor us. And we've both had maps challenged and tossed in court. And before anyone whines about "bothsideism" it's absolutely true and can proved with a simple comparison of % of votes to % of seats won. You can call it gerrymandering or describe it another way, but when those two numbers start to drift apart in states with more than 2-3 seats, political gamesmanship is taking place.

Personally I hate it, but the math tells me it's a wash at the national level and while it has other implications (like moving both parties away from the majority of voters in the middle) I don't have a huge problem with a party that receives X% of votes also winning ~X% of the seats.

If they had more votes (and they do) and they played these games in Red States to a further extant than we did in Blue States, they would have won even more seats. The fact that the percentage of seats won is very close to the percentage of votes cast for both parties tells me that it was a level playing field. It may not have been a just or fair field, but it looks as if the bias was present on both sides in more or less equal amounts.