In the November election, a million more Americans voted for Democrats seeking election to the U.S. House of Representatives than Republicans. But that popular vote advantage did not result in control of the chamber. Instead, despite getting fewer votes, Republicans have maintained a commanding control of the House. Such a disparity has happened only three times in the last century.
(Here’s a chart comparing 2010 and 2012.)
Analysts and others have identified redistricting as a key to the disparity. Republicans had a years-long strategy of winning state houses in order to control each state's once-a-decade redistricting process. (Confused about redistricting? Check out our song.)
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3 comments:
So what this saying is that regardless of what people wanted (per their votes), the Republican Party underhandedly managed to not let that happen. Very interesting.
Gerimanderimg...it should be illegal for both parties.. Cheaters... It's ok.. Republicans have many years before they get White House
Or it could be as simple as the morons from California and places like that vote overwhelmingly for their reps and other smaller states have closer races. Like if a rep in Cal gets 700.000 votes and his opponent gets 300,000 there is already quite a difference in total votes
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