Redistricting Offers Few Gains for Republicans

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Redistricting Offers Few Gains for Republicans


"On paper, the sweeping gains Republicans enjoyed last year in statehouses across the country gave the party a profound advantage in the nascent and increasingly contentious power struggle to create new Congressional districts," the New York Times reports.

"But those gains are likely to add up to fewer than 10 seats in the House of Representatives, largely because Republicans took so many seats from Democrats in 2010 that there are not many left to change hands through redistricting... Compounding the Republicans' problem, much of the nation's population gains have been among Hispanics, who have tended to vote Democratic, or in areas where voters tend to be less friendly to Republicans."