Monday, November 29, 2004

420+ of 435 U.S. House seats locked into a party due to gerrymandering

Fewer and fewer congressional races are being contested because of the political influence over the drawing of those districts in the state legislatures.
It used to be that having 50 competitive races in the 435-member U.S. House of Representatives was low, but that number has now fallen into the low teens, noted Colleen Shogun, associate professor of government and politics at George Mason University.

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