1. Michigan is a gerrymandered mess. But maybe not for long. When it comes to discussing heavily gerrymandered states, I’ve often pointed to Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or North Carolina. But Michigan sucks, too. Until I dug into the numbers this week, I...
“Everybody does it”… but do they? A reader wrote me after last week’s issue and pointed out that as I detailed examples of states with extreme gerrymandering, I only highlighted states where Republicans redistricted to favor their...
The biggest threat to the vote in 2018 might be the machines ProPublica posted a story last week about how the biggest threat to the vote in 2018 may not be hacking or voter suppression, but the failing technology in most polling places in America. Check out...
What we learned in Pennsylvania on Tuesday Democrat Conor Lamb defeated Republican Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District election by 627 votes on Tuesday. That’s 627 out of 228,378 total votes cast. Aside from edging out Saccone by...
