You may have heard about retiring Rep. Barney Frank's claim that the House would be in Dem hands today without the egregious gerrymandering by GOP-controlled state legislators. This was based at least partly on the well-publicized fact that Dem candidates won the majority of votes for House seats this year (so much for the Boehner and Fox claims of winning a "mandate" there).
But today the
Wash Post "Fact Checker" column questions Barney's claim and awards him two "pinocchios." They go with a pre-election study that projected that the re-districting would only help the GOP win maybe 11 races they didn't deserve, which would still leave the GOP in control. Expect, as usual, some strong fact-checking of the Fact Checker today.
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