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How Partisan Gerrymandering Fuels Political Polarization

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In the 2012 U.S. House elections, Democrats won more than one million more votes nationwide than Republicans, yet Republicans kept a comfortable majority in the House—a result shaped significantly by how districts were drawn. This gap between votes and seats is a direct product of partisan gerrymandering, and it deepens polarization by making safe seats the norm.

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You've heard that gerrymandering is unfair, but did you know it might be literally pushing politicians to the extremes? Why would drawing lines on a map make a congressman more radical?