Aggregate Two-Party House of Representatives Vote Was 51.36% Republican, Yielding 50.57% of House Seats
This suggests that, whatever one thinks of gerrymandering and of geographic representation (as opposed to proportional representation), they didn’t seem to have a particularly distortive effect on this year’s race. (For the aggregate House vote totals, I’m looking at the Cook Political Report totals.)
As it happens, I don’t much like gerrymandering, though I’m not sure what the optimal solution to it would be. (I’m not sure what I think on balance
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