I wonder what his record on voting rights and gerrymandering is. Is he also in favor of giving Republicans a free pass on voter suppression?
Holy false equivalency Batman! Let's look at the numbers from the 2016 election shall we?
North Carolina:R= 53,22% of the vote. 76,9% of the seats (10 out of 13)
North Carolina is the poster child for partisan gerrymandering. In a first past the post system, you will almost always expect the majority party to gain a larger majority of the seats that the popular vote margin would suggest. But North Caroline is a swing state. Republicans have a small popular vote margin that results in more than 3 out of 4 seats.
A reasonable distribution of seats in this system, where you will a slim 53% majority would be more like...
Illinois:D= 53,62% of the vote. 61,1% of the seats (11 out of 18)
A similar PV victory to the dems as the NC win for the GOP, but here a 53% win results in just 61% of the seats, which is far more reasonable.
Granted, Maryland resulted in a blowout for the dems, but in a first past the post system, you will expect a 60% PV win to results in something like a clean sweep for one party, as was the case:
Maryland:D= 60,43% of the vote. 87,5% of the seats (7 out of
You will see something similar in most southern states. Take South Carolina, where the GOP won with a very similar 60,53% of the vote, yet got 6 out of the 7 seats.
And then we haven't even talked about the numerous states where the democrats won the popular vote yet won fewer seats than the GOP. Like Virginia where dems won 50,22% of the vote, yet only win 4 out of 11 seats.
Gerrymandering is terrible no matter who the perpetrators are, but you'd be crazy to deny the republicans have been the main perpetrators here and the main beneficiaries of gerrymandering.
