Dems Have a Voter Problem. Gerrymandering Was Never Going To Fix It

Dems Have a Voter Problem. Gerrymandering Was Never Going To Fix It

In November 2024, 47% of Virginia voters cast ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Under the map Virginia Democrats tried to push through, those voters would have ended up with exactly one Republican district out of 11. Going from a 6-5 to a 10-1 split was what Democrats called "restoring fairness." To get it done, Democrats bypassed a bipartisan redistricting commission that Virginia voters had specifically created in 2020 to end pa…