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Barack Obama: “If you have tilted, skewed, politically gerrymandered, uncompetitive districts, that's going to attract candidates who…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2021
If you have tilted, skewed, politically gerrymandered, uncompetitive districts, that's going to attract candidates who are more extreme and only care about firing up their base, which means compromise becomes more difficult, which means a lot of voters simply get ignored, and that is bad for our democracy.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama discusses the negative impact of gerrymandering on democracy.

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