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Gerrymandering sways House and state-level elections. It doesn't have a direct impact on Senate and Presidential elections.
by neuronexmachina 9y ago
Gerrymandering sways House and state-level elections. It doesn't have a direct impact on Senate and Presidential elections.
- davvolun 9y agoNE-02 sent an electoral vote to Obama in 2008, whereas the other 4 NE votes went to McCain. In 2010, NE-02 was gerrymandered (arguably) and all 5 votes have gone to Romney (2012) and Trump (2016) since then. Admittedly, that's sort of an exception that proves the rule. Only NE and ME don't operate under a winner-takes-all, they've so far only split their votes once each (2008 in NE and 2016 in ME), and their votes -- certainly splitting their votes -- has never impacted the result of a Presidential election.
- Feniks 9y agoThe electoral college is gerrymandering though. Obviously it exist because otherwise the Eastcoast and Westcoast decide every election instead of Ohio lol.