Nate Silver: As Swing Districts Dwindle, Can a Divided House Stand?

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3. Nope

it differs from state to state.

But the absurdly disproportionate amount of red to blue districts that Silver lays out - not only in basic proportion, but in light of both 08 and 12 being presidential elections where democrats received more overall votes than republicans, displays a VERY clear level of gerrymandering.

I live in Pa. Barrack Obama and Bob Casey won by more than 5 points. Democratic congressional candidate received more total votes than republican congressional candidates. Pa has 18 congressional districts. Democrats won 5, Republicans won 13.

We have almost a million more registered democrats than registered republicans. Now, we know democrats don't get out as much as Rs, but still. Republicans have a MORTAL lock in the state senate, and the House only flips in big D wave years and quickly turns back to R.

There are few states as ridiculously gerrymandered as Pa, you would literally laugh if you saw our state level and congressional district maps.

Rachel Maddow did a bit two weeks ago, and the same kind of total vote to actual results in overall congressional results occured in Mi, Va, Wisky and another state.

These five states alone likely make the republican margin in the House.

Pa needs a constitutional convention to get an independent redistricting commission.

Not happening.

The Rs who run the state set the districts, and sadly, the Ds who are in the districts that get all the Ds stuffed in them put a public show, but don't fight it one bit in Harrisburg.