2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo, MSNBC is predicting the Republicans hold the House -
How? Is it all due to gerrymandering?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)This is not shocking.
yourout
(7,534 posts)still_one
(92,454 posts)Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)GOP has been winning a lot of state legislatures, which do redistricting at their pleasure (limited only modestly by threat of court action).
Democrats do it too, where we can, but the GOP has control of many more states.
You can take a 50/50 state, and carve it up so that one party has a single 95% district and is 45% in all the rest of the districts, making every seat but one in the whole state an uphill climb.
mucifer
(23,576 posts)Pass me another beer will you?
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)mucifer
(23,576 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Fortunately, the kids seem to take after their Dad and are OK with moderation. That's one bullet we seem to have ducked.
mucifer
(23,576 posts)Blaukraut
(5,695 posts)We need to undo the gerrymandering after next census - 2020. Then the house will be in play again.
Reter
(2,188 posts)Picking up the House was all but impossible this year.
Darb
(2,807 posts)2010 will haunt this country for a generation.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)And yes, yes it is.