Penelope
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This is big time, the same thing happened here in Mi . More proof the wrong person won the election.
I doubt the polls were wrong, they didn't take into account gerrymandering and the extent of it.
I doubt the polls were wrong, they didn't take into account gerrymandering and the extent of it.
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Wisconsin Republicans' Gerrymander Takes Politics Too Far
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter. His books include “Cool War: The Future of Global Competition” and “Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem -- and What We Should Do About It.”
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Almost three-quarters of state legislatures are in Republican hands, which demonstrates how dangerous partisan gerrymandering is to the continued viability of two-party democracy. Partisan gerrymandering entrenches small advantages and makes them big. Because state legislatures set federal congressional districts, this is a part of the reason the U.S. House is so heavily Republican.
With the political branches of government in Republican hands, any reform must come from the courts. The Wisconsin case may become the most important judicial decision of our political era.
Wisconsin Republicans' Gerrymander Takes Politics Too Far
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