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Originally Posted by #-3
For the House gerrymandering is very much a problem, its pretty much the only reason the Reps have a chance at the house.
The Senate, is basically institutional gerrymandering.
And the Electoral College is skewed because of the gerrymander that is the Senate. (every state basically gets 1 EV for every Congressperson and 1EV for every Senator, so Cali with 25x the population of Wy only gets 18x the Elector Votes) way less skewed than the Senate, but still skewed. The Solution to this is probably that there are not nearly enough congress people. The US has about 1.3x more Congresspeople compared to Canadas MPs and 9.5x the population. Without expanding congress the electoral College Skew will only get worse.
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I agree it affects the house, but it hasn't had any affect on 2018 or 2020, and Trump/Trumpism/Tea Partism has changed the map enough to make some gerrymandering efforts backfire.
The other things you are describing aren't related to Gerrymandering. If I'm not mistaken Gerrymandering is artificially drawing and re-drawing districts to siphon off unneeded areas from very partisan congressional districts to districts that are much closer.
The Senate and the EC have been as they are forever, and even though they do give small, rural states a disproportional amount of power, it was not due to any recent partisan manipulation.