Even Gerrymandering Can't Save Republicans From The Oncoming Wave

All of the gerrymandering and theft of voting rights that Republicans have done are not enough to protect the Republican House majority in a wave election.

One of the most distasteful elements of current American politics is the desire of political parties to overdramatize potentially bad news to scare donors into opening their wallets.

Both political parties spend millions upon millions of dollars paying fundraisers to send out thousands of texts and emails that react to any event with some variation of “Insert candidate name or party here” is DOOMED if you do not send $5 right now.

The latest example of this is the gloom and doom being spread by Democrats after Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was gutted by the conservative Supreme Court majority, and the conservative majority on Virginia’s state supreme court overturned the redrawing of the congressional maps that voters agreed to.

Watch Sarah discuss the battle for voting rights:

The usual suspects that Democratic leadership use to plant the doom narratives (NYT, Washington Post, Politico, etc.) have been out in full force with articles about what a major setback this is for Democrats.

One thing those articles never do is discuss the numbers, so let’s take a look under the hood at what is really going on.