Not according to our old friend Sam Wang.
Princeton Professor Sam Wang found that gerrymandered districts may actually be less safe than those that aren’t politically altered. By analyzing data from Public Policy Polling, which provides not-quite-perfect results in 36 districts, Wang found that Republicans lost twice as much support over the shutdown in their gerrymandered districts than in red districts with boundaries that weren’t politically redrawn. “Isn’t that freaky?” Wang said when I spoke with him.
Emphasis mine.
The article is from Business Week. And another article that should give republicans pause follows.
Interesting. Do you think Business Week is trying send a message?