Why Republicans Are Winning the Redistricting War

New York Times: “That is mostly because of two important criteria in redistricting: whether a party has full control of the governor’s office in a state and both chambers of its legislature — known as a trifecta — and whether the state has policies and laws that permit partisan redistricting.”

“Republicans have 23 trifectas across the country, compared with just 16 for Democrats. And most G.O.P.-controlled states have kept the map-drawing process in control of their state legislatures, which has given Republican lawmakers the power to redraw congressional districts. These maps often need to be signed into law by the governor.”

“Some Democratic-leaning states, by contrast, have adopted independent commissions to draw their congressional maps in an effort to make the redistricting process less political.”