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Purple America Has All but Disappeared

by mrjaeger on 3/8/17, 9:28 PM with 6 comments

• by jrnichols on 3/9/17, 12:51 AM

  Everyone wants to blame gerrymandering, but how does that affect presidential votes?

  I wouldn't think that it does. Your local district doesn't dictate who your presidential vote is for.

  "President Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was among the narrowest in history,"

  goes to show image showing that a huge amount of counties voted for Trump by more than 20 points

  Hmm.

• by undersuit on 3/8/17, 10:29 PM

  I don't understand. The author is insisting on Twitter that gerrymandering isn't involved, "the boundaries of America's counties didn't change since 1992."

  So when did Electoral Districts become inconsequential?

• by thinkmilitant on 3/8/17, 10:26 PM

  I can't help but wonder how much of this is just the evidence of rampant gerrymandering.