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Ruth Bonner

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7. Many states have been gerrymandered in the last decade I thought...

Reply to deminks (Original post)

Tue Nov 22, 2016, 12:48 AM

Nov 2016

Indiana was in 2013 and the districts went from reasonable rectangles with roughly equal populations to ridiculous. We immediately lost the Dem congressman we had had and got Todd Young. I'm really hoping to see an analysis of how this - and the fact that the voting rights act was allowed to lapse - impacted the races up and down the ballot. My bet is that these two things could account for more than enough votes that should have gone to Hillary.

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Many states have been gerrymandered in the last decade I thought... Ruth Bonner Nov 2016 #7