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Back to the way that the congressional districts are drawn. tonight, i am talking about gerry mandering which is the practice of drawing the districts to change the rules of the game so that political parties stay in power and get what they want often at the expense of voters. >> reporter: take a look at iowa and look at how rational the lines are, compact and side-by-side communities and makes sense, right? compare that to pennsylvania's 12th. creative, right? up, down, thin, long, skipping communities. now, this is understood to be an incumbent protection district, and in fact, it was congre...

>> 39 now. >> these tell you two things. republicans are ahead and more enthusiastic. >> right. the thing is 3/4 of the districts are foregone conclusion. it's only a finite number that decide who's going to control the house. >> excuse me. when you look at the polls this november, you only expect to see real results of any interest in about 70 races? >> yeah. >> the rest of it's already locked in. >> that's the way it always is. sometimes the numbers will be bigger. >> that's because of all the gerry mandering and out in the west, the western states are all republican, big cities are all demo...