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1. The potential risk with gerrymandering is...
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:23 PM
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...that if the vote swings toward the Democrats by ten or twenty points, then we may take all those districts. Spreading out the Republican voters to capture more districts actually reduces the Republican margin in every red district, making it more vulnerable if there is a shift in voter sentiment.

With the recent 75%-25% Dem win in Virginia, and the overperformance by Dems in the two Florida special elections a few months back, it looks like just such a shift is in play. Republicans may gerrymander themselves out of an extra 10 to 20 seats!

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