Nate Cohn

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

Texas is the most obvious case. If you drew a partisan-blind map with compact, county/city-based CDs, you'd have a very real chance of drawing a map where Biden won a majority of CDs, much as a similar technique often yields Trump favored maps in PA/WI/MI, etc — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2021

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

The result is that there are several red/Sun Belt states where the Democrats have a big geographic advantage. There, they win metro areas efficiently, 60/40 (and with great population-vote ratios in Latino areas), while the GOP wastes votes with huge rural margins — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2021

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

Don't get me wrong: Democrats are still at the overall disadvantage nationwide. But I do think the growing regional split is interesting and does have some consequences for the gerrymandering debate — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2021