Speaking of gerrymandering..........from 538
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Initial results are trickling in from North Carolina, but at one point, it wasn’t clear that these elections would even be held today. In August, a panel of three federal judges ruled the state’s congressional map to be an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. That set up the possibility that the state would have to redraw its maps ahead of the midterms and maybe even hold a primary today instead of a general election.
The panel later ruled in September that the state did not need to redraw the lines before November 6th. As a result, today’s elections are being held under maps that favor Republicans with only one or two districts seriously at risk of being picked up by Democrats.
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