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No, not really. But sort of. Ian Millhiser explains that Democratic House candidates actually got more votes nationwide than Republicans, by around 500,000. So how could the Republicans maintain their majority? Simple. It was gerrymandering. Nick Baumann at Mother Jones has the goods (h/t Dayen): North Carolina, which Obama lost by around 2 percentage points: 9-4 GOP Florida, [...]
Archive for the ‘Election reform’ Category
November 9th, 2012
November 6th, 2012
Virginia has a nonpartisan election board. The rest of us ought to (though we need a backer for the cause).
November 4th, 2012
GOP hoping that voter suppression will help them. It won’t be enough. And it has tarnished the Republican brand for years to come.
July 4th, 2012
Michigan’s GOP governor does the right thing on voter ID laws.
March 9th, 2008
Category: Election reform
Sending out mailings to a neighborhood showing which residents voted in the past two elections and which didn’t, and promising to send out a similar mailing after the next election, boosts turnout at less than $2 per additional vote. Let’s get organized to do it.