GOP’s Edge in Redistricting Could Hurt Party for Decades

Charlie Cook argues that the GOP’s “arguably rigged House majority” — achieved through the power of redistricting — could be a curse disguised as a blessing.

“They clearly did everything they could to purge Democratic voters from their districts ahead of 2012, no matter whether those voters were white, black, Hispanic, left-handed, or right-minded–just as Democrats would have done had the roles been reversed. But in the process of quarantining Democrats, Republicans effectively purged millions of minority voters from their own districts, and that should raise a warning flag. By drawing themselves into safe, lily-white strongholds, have Republicans inadvertently boxed themselves into an alternate universe that bears little resemblance to the rest of the country?”