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0 that's a fun and important thing to do. the same thing happened when it came time to elect members of the u.s. congress from michigan. more voters in michigan cast a ballot for a democratic member of congress than cast a ballot for a republican member of congress. and it was by quite a lot, by a couple 100,000 votes. oorm, more michigan voters wanted to send a democrat to congress to represent them than wanted to send a republican to represent them. guess who is actually going to congress to represent them? ah, yes, republicans. michigan's congressional delegation will include almost twice a...

0 up the maps. and so republicans got themselves pretty good advantage. they got to decide how to clump voters in certain districts, how to divide voters in other districts so the election could produce the maximum number of republican candidates that conscience and the federal justice department would allow. that same dynamic at work that we saw in michigan, that same deal that played out there, it played out in other states too. it maid out in wisconsin, where republicans were also swept to power in the 2010 elections, just in time for drawing up the new maps. wisconsin, of course, voted for...

0 this time around in michigan, so it was the republicans who drew up the maps. and so republicans got themselves pretty good advantage. they got to decide how to clump voters in certain districts, how to divide voters in other districts so the election could produce the maximum number of republican candidates that conscience and the federal justice department would allow. that same dynamic at work that we saw in michigan, that same deal that played out there, it played out in other states too. it maid out in wisconsin, where republicans were also swept to power in the 2010 elections, just in ...