MarkD
Junior Chimp
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« on: February 05, 2017, 11:30:54 PM » |
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I think that gerrymandering is given too much undeserving credit for how the Republicans have held their majority since 2010, and that it won't mean much of anything to how well the Democrats perform in 2018. Gerrymandering is nothing more than an attempt to take advantage of the predictability of the voters. It does not always succeed as planned, simply because voters have the prerogative to vote differently than the map-drawers thought they would.
The most important factors will be what they usually are during mid-terms: how popular/unpopular is the incumbent President and is the economy turning sour? I think a Democratic wave like the one in 2006 is very possible, gerrymandering be damned.
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