Jay Cost on Obama’s Concentration Problem

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Recently Michael Barone pointed out that President Obama has a concentration problem:

Democrats have too many seats that are heavily Democratic—or, to put it another way, Democratic voters are heavily concentrated in too few House seats. The reasons are mainly demographic: areas with large black, Hispanic, and (to use Joel Kotkin’s term) gentry liberal populations are more heavily Democratic than any correspondingly sized part of the country is heavily Republican.

This gives the Republicans a structural advantage in the House of Representatives — an advantage that will help them rack up seats in November.

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