On Monday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough proclaimed that “the only reason” that Republicans will have a majority in the House of Representatives is because North Carolina Republicans “rigged” the state’s congressional districts to take three seats from Democrats. The MSNBC host did not mention that there are plenty of states (California, for example) where Republicans are substantially short-changed in the number of districts they can win compared to the party’s overall performance in the state.
As Scarborough was making an argument that, because the overall popular vote in the elections was close, pundits should not go overboard in predicting how much trouble Democrats are in, the MSNBC host brought up Republicans picking up three House seats in North Carolina after the districts were redrawn by the Republican legislature this year, twice…
