Close races put Pennsylvania House majority control in limbo as Democrats take 1-seat lead

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3. The House Dems had a presser announcing this outside of Independence Hall

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1:41 PM · Nov 9, 2022

Am hoping this will come to fruition. We so need this here to send a message.

The redistricting after the census for the state legislature that went on behind the scenes and was little talked about, shows the big difference from 2010. In 2010, the map was gerrymandered under a GOP governor, GOP legislature, and GOP-majority state Supreme Court. Even when the old map was challenged in court, it was only modified around the fringes but still severely gerrymandered with its final 2012 version.

THIS go-around, we had a Democratic governor and (D)-majority state Supreme Court and they were able to get the crap 2012 map closer to fair districts in 2021. It was expected that Democrats would pick up some long-denied seats to reflect our still-majority registration advantage, but the prevailing "Dems-suck and are unenthusiastic" media narrative pretty much pooh-poohed any possibility of us taking control of what became a large number of swing seats, instead implying they would remain in GOP hands. This was basically the media buying into the nonsense that "land votes" and actual people living there are just ancillary because "red swaths" were assumed to represents millions of GOP votes and not the actual thousands of dairy cows or elk.

I.e., the "red mirage" thinking that has been infused in the media, masked the reality on the ground.