Even though we're not really -- Center-Right -- when you look at "popular vote counts" -- without all the creative line-drawing.
Who's Gerry? He's the weasel-for-hire doing the one-sided math, in this next video. Congress-critters know him well.
Gerrymandering Explained
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Maybe Bill Clinton was right? ... it is just about the Math.
For example, here are some Congressional Districts "Gerry-rigged" not to represent the actual Popular Vote, from which they derive their power from:
It’s Appalling that Gerrymandering Is Legal
by Emily Bazelon, slate.com -- Nov. 9, 2012
The maps are amazing: Ohio and Pennsylvania, states that went blue for Barack Obama, have congressional delegations that are heavily red. As David Weigel pointed out Wednesday, the maps show how gerrymandering saved the Republican majority in the House. (Even though Obama won Pennsylvania by 5 points, Republicans took 13 of 18 House districts. In Ohio, Obama won by two and the GOP kept 12 of 16 House seats.*) It’s outrageous. [...]
Here are a few more ...
All about Redistricting
Professor Justin Levitt -- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Who draws the lines?
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[ ... Click to see the State representation breakdown table.]
Congress is broken. And Gerry-the-weasel is a big reason why.
Without his creative proportioning, we might actually have a Congress that could get stuff done.
We might actually have a Congress that "represented" the majority will of the people.
What is so wrong, with "square-shaped" districts, anyways?
In that "boring" world -- it's the People that have the leverage. Not the weasels.