Three trends work against this goal today: restrictive voter laws, campaign finance rules tilted towards the super-rich, and gerrymandering. Gerrymandering has been decried throughout American history, but this has not prevented both political parties from using it when they could. In the 2008 Obama wave, Democrats dominated the state’s congressional delegation by a margin of 12-7. Republicans won the state legislature in 2010, reversed those numbers in the 2010, however, and they redrew the state’s congressional district lines. Because of Republican redistricting, the winner of the statewide congressional vote dramatically “lost” the election.

Source: Huffington Post October 03, 2017 12:56 UTC