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Amishman

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15. gerrymandering is not the whole picture

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #11)

Fri Mar 4, 2016, 05:49 PM

Mar 2016

even with districts remapped to be truly neutral (as compact as possible) we could still win the popular vote and lose the House. Our base is very heavily concentrated in cities where we get a lot of 'wasted' votes. We have a lot of voters concentrated in city cores that have a general population that votes 80 or even 90% D. Rural regions that always go red still are usually only in the 60-70% range.

As long as there are districts and our base is so tightly geographically concentrated, we will be at a disadvantage in any race that is not statewide or nationwide.

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