It's true. Most smart people know that fact. Gerrymandering and voter suppression put Democrats at a great disadvantage.
Democrats may be ecstatic that they retook the
House of Representatives, but their decisive victory conceals a harsher reality: It took a landslide in the popular vote to get them here, and they are projected to lose seats in the
Senate.
Those facts speak to just how far the U.S. election system is tilted in the Republicans’ favor. Through a combination of fundamental factors and partisan gerrymandering, Republicans on Tuesday retained their grip on the Senate and many state houses without a national majority.
Certain factors give Republicans a natural advantage. In the Senate, the disproportionate representation of small states is part of the body’s original design. But that advantage, which
benefits white voters, has become more lopsided than the framers of the Constitution likely ever imagined as the country’s population and demographics evolve. Today, 20 senators from urban states represent
roughly half the country’s population, while the other, rural half elects the remaining 80.
U.S. Election Rules Doomed Democrats' Chances Of Taking The Senate