Huey » 04 Oct 2013 5:20 pm » wrote:And you don't think that gerrymandering has anything at all to do with that?In the last House election Democrats got 54,301,095 votes while Republicans got 53,822,442.What saved the Republican majority wasn't the will of the people but the power of redistricting.First, there are too many factors. District size for one. Hell, a democrat in Brooklyn can and will get a hell of a lot more votes than a republican in VA. And could still lose. So no, that proves nothing.
False. Districts are ccreated by apportionment - population gives you your district. Each district has appx 700,000 people.
There has never been but one exception to this, and this was when we allowed the slave states to count non-humans as 3/5ths of a human.
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