The looming California gerrymander
Structural bias in the House is low, voter support for independent redistricting, Trump districts in Massachusetts, a specious new WAR analysis, Black voter loyalties, pioneering media buying study
No. 371 | August 15th, 2025
🗺 Redistricting
It’s notable that California Democrats are going to extra-constitutional lengths to gerrymander the state when the party nationally has gotten substantially better at redistricting. The pro-Republican structural bias of the House is nowhere near that of the 2010s — and in fact, there’s a slight pro-Democratic bias now.
No maps yet, but here is a leaked report on what Dems are planning.
