Quote:I do understand how it works. I edited my comment right before I saw yours to change the overall tone/point of my comment. This is happening all over the country and is a mockery of the democratic process. 

 

Quite right. Without it we don't have the bizarre goings on of congress that we currently have, and we likely have both chambers under democratic control as in 2012 democratic candidates got millions more votes collectively than republican candidates did, yet the republicans still have a narrow margin of control in the house thanks to state legislative gerrymandering.

 

Gerrymandering is why state and local elections are so important, and why it's a problem that many people only vote for national elections, since it's the state and local elections that determine how much control people will actually be able to assert in the national elections.

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