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“That's 80k Democrats who didn't go to vote. - That's well within the territory of gerrymandering” FYI gerrymandering doesn’t directly affect presidential or s
by javagram 7y ago
“That's 80k Democrats who didn't go to vote. - That's well within the territory of gerrymandering”
FYI gerrymandering doesn’t directly affect presidential or senatorial races except for two minor exceptions, Maine and Nebraska, which allocate electoral votes based on CD winners.
Every other state including the decisive Midwest “blue wall” states has a winner take all allocation method which means Gerrymandering has no effect (unless you consider 19th century state borders to be gerrymandering!)
- selectodude 7y agoGerrymandering is far more useful as a form of voter disenfranchisement. Voting districts can be messed with in subtle ways like having far more voting booths per capita in whiter areas, they can make people not show up to vote for president since their vote is legitimately not worth anything for everything downballot, etc. The best gerrymandering nowadays is to make people not bother to vote anymore.