Advantage Quote by Jeffrey Toobin

“Gerrymandering isn’t just a recent phenomenon, though; the word was coined in 1812 when Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry went to such egregious lengths to…

— Dan Rather

Gerrymandering at its essence is supposed to be used to reflect the changing geography to ensure representation. But we know that politics gets involved…

— Wayne Messam

“the gerrymandering of 2010 had created what Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker called a “historical oddity.” Political extremists now had no incentive to…

— Jane Mayer

What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.

— Letitia James

“Proposed 28th Amendment: 28th Amendment: Revoke Electoral College. Banish the practice of Gerrymandering. Remove private funding from politics.”

— Leland Lewis

You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.

— Allard K. Lowenstein

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

— Barack Obama

American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.

— Timothy Morton

Fighting gerrymandering is one thing. The other thing is insuring we have the right candidates for the people and not the right candidates for…

— Ilhan Omar

In 1884, for the first time since the Civil War, voters had elected a Democrat to the White House. Grover Cleveland promised to use…

— Heather Cox Richardson

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

— Gail Collins

“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country…

— Jane Mayer