"PRESIDENT TRUMP just posted the ultimate proof!
Hundreds of counties across America SHIFTED HARD toward him, even in places that went blue before. The map is BLOOD RED."
(twitter.com)
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Question for you: does the population vary by huge amounts in each congressional district?
That is the real issue, depending on what part of the election you are looking at.
For federal elections, if you got 99/100 counties in a state, it doesnt matter that theyre read if they only have 40% of the population for the state. That last county can have the other 60% of the population, and that turns the state blue.
If you look at counties, sure. But congressional districts are supposed to have the approximately the same population. Electoral college is based on congressional districts. I think weβre saying the same thing.
But remember that congressional districts =/= counties.
Again, I'll point to the recent vote in Virginia about redrawing those congressional districts. By getting to redraw their map, Virginia is expected to pick up another 3 seats in Congress.
This is why gerrymandering is such an important issue. They carve up the map to give them the most votes. They carve right through counties. It's not evenly distributed. And again, they're carving up the map based on population density and the way those people vote, not land area. Because land doesn't vote. People do.
Thatβs fine, let them do it. Dead people donβt vote, neither do illegals, and when Trump is done, they will still lose.
Probably not each, but yes, they can be drastically different.
The perfect example is Virginia, and we saw the results of those huge differences in the recent redistricting election.
Remember the big deal that was made when Fairfax county reported their numbers late and swung the numbers from No to Yes?
Fairfax County has over a million people. This one county has more people in it than ~60 of the least populated counties in the state. Not 6. 60. 6-0.
That one county, which is overwhelmingly democrat, negated ~60 republican counties, many of which only had ~ 2,000 to 5,000 people.
Virginia only has around 95 counties. And Fairfax isn't the only example here.
Prince William county, democat, ~500,000
Loudon county, democrat, ~400,000
Arlington county, democrat, ~250,000
Those three counties have more people than the next 20 smallest counties (after the 60 I mentioned above) which are mostly Republican.
That's 4 democrat counties that effectively negates ~80 republican counties, because of the huge difference in population. Remember Virginia only has ~95 counties.
By physical size alone, those 4 counties don't take up anywhere near ~80+% of the state.
So the map showing lots of red doesn't mean that there are a lot of Republican voters in those areas. Because land doesn't vote. People do, and they're not evenly distributed across the state.