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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Jul 29, 2015, 02:24 PM Jul 2015

How Gerrymandering Has Hurt Democrats

A Smart Politics analysis finds there are 16 U.S. Senators who currently serve states with a majority of its U.S. House seats held by the opposing political party; only one of these 16 is a Republican – Mark Kirk of Illinois.

Over the last eight cycles dating back to 2000, only 14 Republicans have been elected to the U.S. Senate from states in which the opposing party won a majority of U.S. House seats that cycle.

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http://politicalwire.com/2015/07/29/how-gerrymandering-has-hurt-democrats/

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How Gerrymandering Has Hurt Democrats (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2015 OP

USA is ruled in the house and senate by the minority of the American people, nothing AllFieldsRequired Jul 2015 #1

AllFieldsRequired

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1. USA is ruled in the house and senate by the minority of the American people, nothing

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 29, 2015, 02:31 PM

Jul 2015

could be clearer than that.

Take any issue, any, and you will not find a majority disagreeing with the Democratic side of that issue.

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