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Everyone wants to blame gerrymandering, but how does that affect presidential votes? I wouldn't think that it does. Your local district doesn't dictate who you
by jrnichols 10y ago
Everyone wants to blame gerrymandering, but how does that affect presidential votes?
I wouldn't think that it does. Your local district doesn't dictate who your presidential vote is for.
"President Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was among the narrowest in history,"
goes to show image showing that a huge amount of counties voted for Trump by more than 20 points
Hmm.
- Terr_ 10y ago> Everyone wants to blame gerrymandering For bizarre Congressional outcomes, yes. That's not new. The article does not mention gerrymandering at all. Districts just happen to be the most-granular level of voting-data most folks have to work with, and when they get redrawn you need to do something to help compare elections from before and after the redraw. > "President Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was among the narrowest in history," Well, yeah. That's not new news either. [0] > image showing that a huge amount of counties No, it shows a large land area of counties. It doesn't tally up the number of discrete counties, nor is it adjusted for their wildly varying populations. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/swing-state-margins/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...
- tdb7893 10y agoI'm not sure if you are being sarcastic but the election victory was narrow. The population of the country isn't uniform.