How do we know the House’s pro-Republican skew has disappeared? One common measure of bias, the efficiency gap, compares the parties’ respective shares of “wasted” votes: those cast either for losing ...
The three seats nabbed by the GOP in a mid-decade gerrymander of North Carolina look like they will be the difference-maker. First the math: As of Thanksgiving weekend, the Associated Press has ...
THE strange creature is back in our midst and making the news again. No, it’s not Pikachu but the sneaky old gerrymander.
The Supreme Court questioned Monday whether Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district went too ...
The term “gerrymander” derives from the lampooning of Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry for approving a redrawn electoral district in 1812 with an unnaturally contorted boundary that ...
The April 1 race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court could tilt the U.S. House to Democrats.
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