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Cosmocat

(14,588 posts)
10. It would have altered this election DRAMATICALLY
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 11:30 AM
Jan 2013

The president won in Pa. 52 to 47%.

Democratic candidates had over 100,000 more votes than the republican candidates in house races, but only won 5 out of 18 races.

Obama could have campaigned harder in PA, but hard to believe he would have changed the outcome much. He might have won overall 53 to 46 or something like that, but the fact is that districts are so gerrymandered it might have flipped one house district at best.

The states where the Rs are looking to do this are states like PA where they have the districts incredibly gerry rigged.

This was a big win by modern standards.

Any election that was closer, any of the Bush elections for that matter, if the D had those level wins, you break up PA, Michigan, Va ... It would swing the election easily.

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