Pennsylvania’s new congressional district map, released Monday by the state Supreme Court, is sure to improve Democrats’ electoral outlook in the state. Over the long term, Democrats can expect to occupy one to two additional seats compared with the current map, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis. (The state’s congressional delegation currently has 12 Republicans and […]
FiveThirtyEightSERIESThe Gerrymandering Project PUBLISHED JAN. 24, 2018 AT 4:59 PM The Atlas Of Redistricting By Aaron Bycoffe, Ella Koeze and David Wasserman There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts look like? We went back to the drawing board and drew six different congressional maps for the entire country. Each map has […]
The Supreme Court does not compute. Or at least some of its members would rather not. The justices, the most powerful jurists in the land, seem to have a reluctance — even an allergy — to taking math and statistics seriously. For decades, the court has struggled with quantitative evidence of all kinds in a […]
Is partisan gerrymandering constitutional? And if not, how is it to be measured? Those are the questions at the heart of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the year, which the justices will hear next week. How the court answers those questions in the case, Gill v. Whitford, has the potential to […]