Gerrymandering: How They Did It June 29, 2016June 26, 2016 How did “blue” states come to be controlled by Republican legislatures and represented in Congress by Republicans? This compelling New Yorker article, based on David Daley’s new book, Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy, explains. . . . So skillfully were the lines drawn that in 2012—when President Obama carried Pennsylvania by three hundred thousand votes and the state’s Democratic congressional candidates collectively outpolled their G.O.P. rivals by nearly a hundred thousand votes—Republicans still won thirteen of Pennsylvania’s eighteen seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. . . . But you can’t gerrymander Senate and Presidential “districts” — entire states — so, even as we work to draw more fair districts state by state, a strong Democratic turn-out will lead to success November 8. The White House, the Senate, and a progressive Supreme Court.