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From: LindyBill8/21/2005 5:54:32 AM
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How the Voting Rights Act helps Republicans

Michael Barone:

On the House side, where Republicans control 232 (53 percent) of the chamber’s 435 seats, Mr. Bush carried 255 districts (59 percent) compared to Mr. Kerry’s 180. Because the Voting Rights Act, by concentrating the minority vote, “tends to elect more blacks and Hispanics and less Democrats,” Mr. Kerry won more than 80 percent of the vote in 20 districts, whereas Mr. Bush never achieved such a margin in a single one. A lot of Kerry votes in those minority-reserved districts “could have been put to work electing Democrats in adjacent districts; but thanks to the Voting Rights Act, they were not available for such duty,” Mr. Barone noted. “In the long run,” he concludes, “Republicans are well positioned to increase their numbers in both Senate and House.”

-- PoliPundit
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