By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
Much of the action this year is in safe districts like this one in Georgia.
Democrats and Republicans spent much of the past year engaged in a gerrymandering competition. The race was to reshape the maps pushed into overtime by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which invited another round of Republican gerrymanders. As a result, the GOP could lose the national House popular vote by a significant margin and still hang onto control of the chamber.
