“Unless you’ve got a district that's up 15, 20, 25 points, you're not going to be interested” in gerrymandering it, Raskin said, because that district gives up Republican voters in order to put them in a less-Republican district. Democrat Aftyn Behn eroding a 21-point Republican advantage down to nine points just made a whole lot of Republicans much less eager to erode their own districts.
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