Good fucking riddance to Jeffrey Lord. Can’t stand the guy. They should have dumped him long ago. I couldn’t care less why they dumped him, just so they did.
won the Electoral College (all gerrymandered to hell and back)./QUOTE]
How does a party gerrymander the electoral college? Partisan redrawing of state lines after every census?
Not to mention that we’d have very few presidents in the last few decades if we required them to win the popular vote in order to be “our president”. As we know, had the vote gone slightly the other way, Hillary could have won the EC vote, but she’d still have come short on the popular vote. Somehow, I don’t think we’d be hearing so much about how she’s not “our president” around here in that case.
It is theoretically possible for gerrymandering to affect the presidential election, but it would an be odd duck of an election. If voters favoring one party were unmotivated to vote at all because their Congressional district was so heavy slanted to favor the other party, and that was common throughout the state, and the state was a close race for president. But we find that most people go to the polls to vote for the president first, and their Congresscritter second (hence the low turnout in midterm elections), so it’s hard to imagine this happening in practice.