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The Two Most Ridiculous Right Wing Shutdown-Related Fake Outrages

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The Mountain That Blogs10/06/2013 3:54:21 pm PDT

re: #202 EPR-radar

Not really. A GOP gerrymander works by concentrating the (D) voters into as few districts as possible while leaving a safe (R) margin in all the other districts. There is no reason for the GOP to make their margins in their districts more than 10 points or so.

The reddest district in the country is TX-13 (Mac Thornberry) at R+32. That would be tied for the 15th bluest district out there.

There are 16 districts of R+25 or more, against 39 at D+25 or greater.

In Pennsylvania, four of the five blue-leaning districts are D+13 or more, including one at D+38 and another at D+28. In contrast, ten of the red districts are less than R+10, and the reddest one is R+14.