"Gerrymandering is at least partly to blame for the lopsided Republican representation in the House. According to an analysis I did last year, the Democrats are under-represented by about 18 seats in the House, relative to their vote share in the 2012 election. The way Republicans pulled that off was to draw some really, really funky-looking Congressional districts.
Contrary to one popular misconception about the practice, the point of gerrymandering isn't to draw yourself a collection of overwhelmingly safe seats. Rather, it's to give your opponentsa small number of safe seats, while drawing yourself a larger number of seats that are not quite as safe, but that you can expect to win comfortably. Considering this dynamic, John Sides of The Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog has argued convincingly that gerrymandering is not what's behind the rising polarization in Congress."
To me gerrymandering means including equal population size, absence of racial discrimination, compactness and contiguity of districts, preservation of county or municipal boundaries and preservation of communities of interest. Gerrymandering is dividing of the state or county into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
To my understanding Gerrymandering can be a benefit the republicans and democrats in various ways it takes on many forms such as political which is typically conducted by the majority party to strengthen or maintain their electoral advantage. Sweetheart or incumbent gerrymander results from an agreement by both major political parties to draw district boundaries to create safe districts known as incumbents. Racial gerrymandering is which was designated to reconstruct poll taxes and literacy tests to suppress African Americans.
Good Gerrymandering is when you can get compact, evenly distributed districts that on the surface don't look like they're disenfranchising anyone.
To me gerrymandering means including equal population size, absence of racial discrimination, compactness and contiguity of districts, preservation of county or municipal boundaries and preservation of communities of interest. Gerrymandering is dividing of the state or county into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
To my understanding Gerrymandering can be a benefit the republicans and democrats in various ways it takes on many forms such as political which is typically conducted by the majority party to strengthen or maintain their electoral advantage. Sweetheart or incumbent gerrymander results from an agreement by both major political parties to draw district boundaries to create safe districts known as incumbents. Racial gerrymandering is which was designated to reconstruct poll taxes and literacy tests to suppress African Americans.
Good Gerrymandering is when you can get compact, evenly distributed districts that on the surface don't look like they're disenfranchising anyone.
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