“Democrats won in nine of
the 10 most-gerrymandered districts. But eight out of 10 of those districts
were drawn by Republicans.
This speaks to the notion
that the point of gerrymandering isn't to draw yourself a safe seat but to put
your opponents in safe seats by cramming all of their supporters into a small
number of districts. This lets you spread your own supporters over a larger
number of districts. And the way to do this is to draw outlandishly-shaped
districts that bring far-flung geographic areas together.”
This
passage is defining that gerrymandering manipulate the boundaries of (an
electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class. It shows how
congress works and how sneaky they are to win. They achieve their goals by
manipulating people and most of the time they do it with out other people
knowing. They divide the state, county and etc. into election districts to give
that particular political party a major advantage in districts.
I chose
this passage because I didn’t know much about elections and how they worked
before I decided to go for a Political Science major. I still have a lot to
learn about the whole political party. I knew that in the elections people lie
their way into offices because I have witness people promises a lot of changes
in our economy, lives, and government and never actually accomplish those
things. When I read the article I wasn’t really shock that they did this
because senators/government can be very sneaky. It is very interesting to learn
how gerrymandering work. I will definitely keep looking into the Political
world and learn all their tricks and treats. J
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