AP analysis shows how gerrymandering benefited GOP in 2016

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Republicans cannot win on the merits of their ideas.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage designed to detect potential political gerrymandering.

The analysis found four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones. Among the two dozen most populated states that determine the vast majority of Congress, there were nearly three times as many with Republican-tilted U.S. House districts.

Traditional battlegrounds such as Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Virginia were among those with significant Republican advantages in their U.S. or state House races. All had districts drawn by Republicans after the last Census in 2010.

The AP analysis also found that Republicans won as many as 22 additional U.S. House seats over what would have been expected based on the average vote share in congressional districts across the country. That helped provide the GOP with a comfortable majority that stood at 241-194 over Democrats after the 2016 elections — a 10 percentage point margin in seats, even though Republican candidates received just 1 percentage point more total votes nationwide.

AP analysis shows how gerrymandering benefited GOP in 2016

If districts were evenly distributed, republicans would not be winning.
 
Both parties have used redistricting for their own personal partisan benefit and we the people lose our equal opportunity to vote for who we choose to represent us and lose our voice....

Gerrymandering has been taken to an extreme level and should be ruled unconstitutional.
 
Republicans cannot win on the merits of their ideas.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage designed to detect potential political gerrymandering.

The analysis found four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones. Among the two dozen most populated states that determine the vast majority of Congress, there were nearly three times as many with Republican-tilted U.S. House districts.

Traditional battlegrounds such as Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Virginia were among those with significant Republican advantages in their U.S. or state House races. All had districts drawn by Republicans after the last Census in 2010.

The AP analysis also found that Republicans won as many as 22 additional U.S. House seats over what would have been expected based on the average vote share in congressional districts across the country. That helped provide the GOP with a comfortable majority that stood at 241-194 over Democrats after the 2016 elections — a 10 percentage point margin in seats, even though Republican candidates received just 1 percentage point more total votes nationwide.

AP analysis shows how gerrymandering benefited GOP in 2016

If districts were evenly distributed, republicans would not be winning.
Do you have a reliable source?
 
The things is most republicans will only see this as them "outsmarting" the democrats. They would give whoever is responsible a medal if they could.
 
Republicans cannot win on the merits of their ideas.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage designed to detect potential political gerrymandering.

The analysis found four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones. Among the two dozen most populated states that determine the vast majority of Congress, there were nearly three times as many with Republican-tilted U.S. House districts.

Traditional battlegrounds such as Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Virginia were among those with significant Republican advantages in their U.S. or state House races. All had districts drawn by Republicans after the last Census in 2010.

The AP analysis also found that Republicans won as many as 22 additional U.S. House seats over what would have been expected based on the average vote share in congressional districts across the country. That helped provide the GOP with a comfortable majority that stood at 241-194 over Democrats after the 2016 elections — a 10 percentage point margin in seats, even though Republican candidates received just 1 percentage point more total votes nationwide.

AP analysis shows how gerrymandering benefited GOP in 2016

If districts were evenly distributed, republicans would not be winning.


Elections at the local level have consequences too!

How do you think the House stayed Democrat for 40 years straight in the late 20th century?

Suck it up, buttercup!
 
Republicans cannot win on the merits of their ideas.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage designed to detect potential political gerrymandering.

The analysis found four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones. Among the two dozen most populated states that determine the vast majority of Congress, there were nearly three times as many with Republican-tilted U.S. House districts.

Traditional battlegrounds such as Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Virginia were among those with significant Republican advantages in their U.S. or state House races. All had districts drawn by Republicans after the last Census in 2010.

The AP analysis also found that Republicans won as many as 22 additional U.S. House seats over what would have been expected based on the average vote share in congressional districts across the country. That helped provide the GOP with a comfortable majority that stood at 241-194 over Democrats after the 2016 elections — a 10 percentage point margin in seats, even though Republican candidates received just 1 percentage point more total votes nationwide.

AP analysis shows how gerrymandering benefited GOP in 2016

If districts were evenly distributed, republicans would not be winning.


How sad it must be for you. All your investigations coming to naught, gazing down the barrel of an 8 year Trump term all black Jesus's pet programs getting shit on, this is all you guys have left now. Next you tards will be back to the electoral collage being mean.
 
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A reliable source is just to look at the maps of districts required to be redrawn every time a bunch of dimshit scum lose elections to find enough voters to build a dimshit district. The constitution specifically states that the states will be the ones who decide where the districts are, but the dimshits have sued to have the federal government make states seek out dimshit voters to MAKE a dimshit district. If you look at the districts it is not enough for them to have total control of their pets districts, they have little pockets that are not even connected at all as part of a district just to get enough dimshit voters to hold a seat. I say the districts should be returned to their original boundaries and let them stand forever.
 
Republicans cannot win on the merits of their ideas.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage designed to detect potential political gerrymandering.

The analysis found four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones. Among the two dozen most populated states that determine the vast majority of Congress, there were nearly three times as many with Republican-tilted U.S. House districts.

Traditional battlegrounds such as Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Virginia were among those with significant Republican advantages in their U.S. or state House races. All had districts drawn by Republicans after the last Census in 2010.

The AP analysis also found that Republicans won as many as 22 additional U.S. House seats over what would have been expected based on the average vote share in congressional districts across the country. That helped provide the GOP with a comfortable majority that stood at 241-194 over Democrats after the 2016 elections — a 10 percentage point margin in seats, even though Republican candidates received just 1 percentage point more total votes nationwide.

AP analysis shows how gerrymandering benefited GOP in 2016

If districts were evenly distributed, republicans would not be winning.
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The things is most republicans will only see this as them "outsmarting" the democrats. They would give whoever is responsible a medal if they could.

/--- it's not very hard to outsmart a DemocRAT.


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Admit it, if you found out the GOP had completely forged the election ballots, and changed the vote, you still would support them... because you love democracy so much lol
 

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