Gerrymandering creates a point of weakness

[Luddly Neddite]

Gerrymandering creates a point of weakness

In the fight over the shutdown, a residual feature of partisan gerrymandering has become unexpectedly important. Andrew Sullivan quotes Kyle Kondik at Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball:

t’s the House Republicans in marginal districts who could see their ranks decimated, just like the House Democratic moderates whose anti-Obamacare votes couldn’t save them in 2010.

It is a common fallacy is to believe that seats gained by partisan gerrymandering are safe seats. In fact, the converse is the case. Gerrymandering achieves a net gain of seats by packing the opposition party into as few districts as possible. North Carolina is a particularly obvious example:

The graphic is available at the link.

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Something tells me we'll be seeing a lot more voter suppression crap from the R.

Its the only way they can win.