You're getting it slightly wrong/backwards. When gerrymandering you want to: 1. Create districts that will overwhelmingly vote for the other guy. and 2. Crea

You're getting it slightly wrong/backwards. When gerrymandering you want to: 1. Create districts that will overwhelmingly vote for the other guy. and 2. Create districts that will just barely vote for you. Because it doesn't matter if you win a district by 1% or by 49% you can take a population that overall is 50/50, or even prefers the other guy and create a lot of districts that will vote for you by a small margin, and only a handful of districts that will vote for the other guy but by a really big margin. There's actually an android puzzle game that does a great job of communicating how it works: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studioBlimp.Gerrymanader&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studioBlim...