{"id":195936,"date":"2008-06-04T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/04\/matthew-yglesias-june-03-2008-the-math-politics\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T22:25:00","slug":"matthew-yglesias-june-03-2008-the-math-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/04\/matthew-yglesias-june-03-2008-the-math-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Yglesias (June 03, 2008) &#8211; The Math (Politics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/the_math.php\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a> finds this bit of political chart porn:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img135.imageshack.us\/img135\/5048\/margintc1.png\" width=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since 1994, Democrats have been under performing their vote totals.  The redistricting in 2012 or so needs to be done in a sensible manner, particularly the extremely Gerrymandered &#8220;Majority Minority&#8221; districts, which have contributed to this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias finds this bit of political chart porn: Since 1994, Democrats have been under performing their vote totals. The redistricting in 2012 or so needs to be done in a sensible manner, particularly the extremely Gerrymandered &#8220;Majority Minority&#8221; districts, which have contributed to this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}