The house will be more than vulnerable if the current congress doesn't pass some restrictions on redistricting. The Rs have as much command over restricting this time as they did in 2001 and 2011.
Democrats gained control of the Senate after a decade in the minority.
What specific laws do people think that we could pass that would affect redistricting?
That's why they've already announced a voters rights act to counteract that and designed it in a way it can't be taken apart as one thing
The house is concerning, but I wish people would stop pushing the abject fiction that the dems blew the senate.
just Warnock, b/c that was a special election after Loeffler was named to replace the rep senator who resigned in 2019, that seat was originally elected 2016 so is up in 2022.
The constitution doesn't provide as much detail on House apportionment, so it is governed by the Reapportionment act of 1929, which oddly enough did away with compactness requirements, which allows for gerrymandering, even though the SC has ruled against gerrymandering conceptually, its avoided providing a clear standard.
The good thing is the Biden admin is already working on 2022:
www.politico.com
Yeah this is a little delusional.
Yeah. I am hoping that the Democratic favored map counters the midterm slide for the incumbent party and we end up in essentially a wash. Maybe pick up one seat.
