Democrats play the exact same games when they're empowered to do so, yet the media doesn't typically frame those machinations as an emergency in need of rectification because the media is heavily composed of Democrats and liberals.
The reason the howling over gerrymandering has grown so loud in recent years is that Republicans controlled much of the process across the country, thanks to sweeping state-level wins in the 2010 midterm election blowout.
With Democrats mounting their own blue wave this year, they're in a much stronger position to exert far greater influence over redistricting following the 2020 census - at which point the gerrymandering panic may mysteriously subside.
Even with Democrats' strong gains, liberal media outlets are still working to undermine the legitimacy of the results, suggesting that districts drawn by the GOP unfairly mitigated further victories to which Democrats were entitled.
So for all the talk about gerrymandering and the structural favoritism for the GOP, Dems won 53.8% of the House seats.
These additional factoids show that Democrats won precisely the share of House seats that they "Should" have, based on their aggregate vote total.
For all the bellyaching from liberals about fiendish Republicans' grotesque contortions of the process in order to distort the results in their favor, Democrats won exactly the number of House seats under the GOP-dominated map as they would have if every House vote in the country were poured into a single pot, then seats were divvied up proportionally.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/11/30/will-this-new-statistic-finally-put-an-end-to-liberals-hangwringing-over-gerrymandering-n2536724
The reason the howling over gerrymandering has grown so loud in recent years is that Republicans controlled much of the process across the country, thanks to sweeping state-level wins in the 2010 midterm election blowout.
With Democrats mounting their own blue wave this year, they're in a much stronger position to exert far greater influence over redistricting following the 2020 census - at which point the gerrymandering panic may mysteriously subside.
Even with Democrats' strong gains, liberal media outlets are still working to undermine the legitimacy of the results, suggesting that districts drawn by the GOP unfairly mitigated further victories to which Democrats were entitled.
So for all the talk about gerrymandering and the structural favoritism for the GOP, Dems won 53.8% of the House seats.
These additional factoids show that Democrats won precisely the share of House seats that they "Should" have, based on their aggregate vote total.
For all the bellyaching from liberals about fiendish Republicans' grotesque contortions of the process in order to distort the results in their favor, Democrats won exactly the number of House seats under the GOP-dominated map as they would have if every House vote in the country were poured into a single pot, then seats were divvied up proportionally.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/11/30/will-this-new-statistic-finally-put-an-end-to-liberals-hangwringing-over-gerrymandering-n2536724
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