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-Republicans came up with a plan in 2008 called Project Red Map, to take over the state houses and assemblies in purple states like Ohio and WI, redraw the electoral maps, to try to get an advantage in the House of Representatives so they could win despite losing the popular votes through gerrymandering the maps. Gerrymandering meaning they pack all the Democratic voters into tiny districts to reduce their influence such that when Democrats vote for the MAJORITY they still LOSE (think of how Trump won the election but lost the popular vote but on a state level)

-Well turns out that between Voting Rights Act restrictions, Democrats winning state houses back, extreme gerrymandering backfiring on Republicans and Democrat states gerrymandering Republicans back, the Republicans are now actually LOSING seats through redistricting process they rigged to try to get more Republicans elected.

-Another example was California, Republicans created independent commissions in Democratic states like California through referendums to try to stop Democrats from using their own gerrymanders to hurt Republicans. Those backfired, because Democratic legislatures tried to draw +30 Democrat districts to ensure their own re-election where independent commissions made more competitive districts and reducing the number of Republican seats. Ironically, Republican states like Iowa or Missouri or Ohio that had independent commissions had their commissions repealed or ignored by Republicans.

The current map right now looks like it add +6 new Democrat seats and 2+ new Republican ones.

As Republicans so heavily gerrymandered their states in 2010-2012, they literally have no more states left to gerrymander (except Florida who passed a law against it). The other Republican states on the map gerrymandered out ALL of the Democrats they legally could.
 

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The only outstanding states, either are under Democrat control and Republicans can't gerrymander like Louisiana, KY, KS, or they are red states where the VRA restricts their ability to gerrymander any further like GA, MS, MO, AR, . The rest of the states have Dem governors in Dem leaning states with Republican or split legislatures like WI, MI, PA, MN. Some of these states have independent commissions like AZ and NJ and CA, Va.

Republicans at best can try to pick up 1 seat in NH. Dems have 5 seats they can add in Ny, one in NM, one in MD, and a few in CA

Meaning Republicans can add at most 1 more seat = +3

Dems can add 7-10 + 6 they already have = +13- 16
 

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