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I’m often impressed with the insightful coverage of U.S. JGerrymandering and partisan division in the U.S., as seen by a British-based paper Gerrymandering and partisan division in the U.S., as seen by a British-based paper

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I’ve heard it before, but I thought Levine did a good job for those who haven’t thought about the subtler evils of gerrymandering in a while. It also discourages compromise and bipartisanship, instead incentivizing politicians to brandish their ideological bonafides.” “Instead of worrying about appealing to voters during a general election, candidates are pushed to the extremes of their parties, becoming more focused on fending off primary challengers. It also distorts the incentive for incumbents to seek middle ground on issues. If you do it just right, not only does this process help the party drawing the boundaries get more seats than it otherwise might, it also contributes to polarization. Once a small number of 90-10 blue districts have soaked up most of the Democratic voters, it’s easy to create a substantially larger number of Republican districts that your party can carry by comfortable 60-40 or 55-45 margins. If Republicans are in control, the name of the game is to pack all the Democratic voters possible into as few districts as possible. The “extra” votes beyond what’s needed to carry the district are “wasted,” because Party A doesn’t get any benefit out of carrying the district 90-10, but those “wasted” votes won’t be a problem when it comes time to create a whole bunch of districts where your own party has a solid but less overwhelming advantage. Perhaps slightly less obvious, this starts with packing the other party’s voters into districts that their party is already destined to carry. If one party controls the state, its political manipulators are expected to design district boundaries once every decade to maximize their party’s ultimate yield. House races occur within district lines that favor one party or the other by a large enough margin that the outcome is in little or no doubt. It’s a bit blunt, but it gets the point made more efficiently than most gerrymandering explainers.