Letters to the Editor
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Isn't It Kind of Problematic...
that the Democrats are awarding delegates by winners of congressional district when most of the states are gerrymandered? For instance, many states go out of their way to draw majority-black districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act (it's complicated but if you're curious I can elaborate). What this means is that most of the black people in those states are in just a few districts. Instead of their being able to swing a lot of districts to Obama, they'll just win the few districts for him in which they're put; the rest of the districts are overwhelmingly white and Hillary will win those easily. Also, many states draw their districting maps to benefit one party or another. In Texas, if half the voters vote Republican, the Republicans win three fifths of the seats. Now, you might not think that would matter given that this is a race between two Democrats. But if the most reliable Democratic voters are packed in a small number of districts, while moderate Democrats and independents/Republicans are the majority in the rest, that would tend to favor Obama. It would be much fairer if they just took the overall vote in the state and assigned the delegates based on the percentages of that.