Pajamas Media \u00bb Reapportionment Favors the Red States<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nOf those gaining representatives, only Nevada and Washington voted Democratic in the 2008 presidential election.\u00a0 Of those losing representatives, only Louisiana and Missouri went for the Republican.<\/p>\n
Why do you think the population shift and demographic changes favors Republicans?\u00a0 Aren\u2019t the progressives supposed to be the wave of the future?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The constitutionally-mandated reappportionment of congressional delegates (and thus electoral votes) according to the latest census is looking good for Republicans. States gaining Congressional seats: Arizona (1), Florida (2), Georgia (1), Nevada (1), South Carolina (1), Texas (4), Utah (1), Washington (1). States losing Congressional seats: Illinois (1), Iowa (1), Louisiana (1), Massachusetts (1), Michigan (1), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,36],"tags":[557,657,1880],"class_list":["post-7250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-government","category-politics","tag-congressional-reapportionment","tag-democrats","tag-republicans"],"yoast_head":"\n
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