compromise because all you got to do is appease the base who helped you win a primary because you re in a noncompetitive district. david, that was excellent. so glad to have you here tonight. thanks a lot, michael. what are your thoughts? reach out to me on social media. at the end of the program oh, we got one more. centrists are unable to win the primary, so our elected officials are more polarized. far left, far right, while most of the country is center left or center right. amen to that. there was something important that david just brought out. gerrymandering gets the attention, right? that s when the boundary lines every ten years based on the census are manipulated to suit one political party or the other. that s only half the dynamic. did you hear him also discuss self-sorting? more and more we are living among the like-minded. you know what s on the rise? blowout counties in this country. we don t redraw county boundary lines. there are 3,000 counties in the united stat
trump-style candidates elected from safe seats. the fringes get rewarded, and there is no incentive to compromise because all you got to do is appease the base who helped you win a primary because you re in a noncompetitive district. david, that was excellent. so glad to have you here tonight. thanks a lot, michael. what are your thoughts? reach out to be on social media. at the end of the program oh, we got one more. centrists are unable to win the primary, so our elected officials are more polarized. amen to that. there was something important that david just brought out. gerrymandering gets the attention, right? that s when the boundary lines every ten years based on the census are manipulated to suit one political party or the other. that s only half the dynamic. did you hear him also discuss self-sorting? more and more we are living among the like-minded. you know what s on the rise? blowout counties in this
one party, either biden or trump, won by five points or less. we re likely to see that go down to the 30s this time. i have a chart prepared for me by you folks at cook political report, which shows the diminished number. what accounts for that? i mean, why have they decreased so much in the last 25 or 50 years? what s happened is americans choose to live in places where their friends and neighbors agree with their political and social values. we ve seen a great self-sorting of the electorate and seen gerrymandering take advantage of that sorting, compounding that by segmenting voters into heavily red or blue districts where we don t really hold competitive elections between candidates of different visions and qualifications anymore. we re essentially holding census of how many people are wearing red or blue jersey live within a set of boundaries. we re likely to see that on steroids this cycle. you know, there s this battle playing out in state capitols
on districts year after year when they can just draw it to be a safe seat. and so right now there are 51 districts out of 435 in which one party, either biden or trump, won by five points or less. we re likely to see that go down to the 30s this time. i have a chart prepared for me by you folks at cook political report, which shows the diminished number. what accounts for that? i mean, why have they decreased so much in the last 25 or 50 years? what s happened is americans choose to live in places where their friends and neighbors agree with their political and social values. we ve seen a great self-sorting of the electorate and seen gerrymandering take advantage of that sorting, compounding that by segmenting voters into heavily red or blue districts where we don t really hold competitive elections between candidates of different visions and qualifications anymore. we re essentially holding census of how many people are wearing red or blue jersey live within a set of boundaries. w
suffering and i m sure those in the guidance counselor s office that met with him are upset about this. we still need to stop what went on here in two successive days, what s unclear whether it was the same teacher that made the reports. in two days you had concerns about this young man one searching for ammunition and a second bloody images and you can t take his word for it i wish to some day design video games. you also weighed in about our electoral reality. i think i ve got time for this. this is fun. thank you. electoral reform is seemingly the only solution open primaries and rank choice voting would be a good start need to create an incentive structure to move politicians away from the fringes. all of that is true. gerrymandering is playing a role and media polarization the biggest driver of all and self-sorting. we re making a conscious choice