Alabama needs to start recruiting Democrats to run for the House. I posted this on the Moore thread, but I'll expand upon it here.
If yesterday's Alabama Senate race had been a House election, the Republicans, who got *fewer* votes, would have won 6 out of 7 seats, and the Democrats, who *won* the vote statewide, only 1 out of 7. That's how gerrymandered Alabama is.
So that's an interesting story about gerrymander, but it's worth it to those numbers from the 2017 Senate election to the 2016 House elections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Alabama,_2016
District 1 - R 96.4% vs. write-ins
District 2 - R 48.8% to D 40.5%
District 3 - R 66.9% to D 32.9%
District 4 - R 98.5% vs. write-ins
District 5 - R 66.7% vs. D 33.1%
District 6 - R 74.5% vs. D 25.4%
District 7 - D 98.4% vs. write-ins
Alabama has 7 House representatives and 3 just coasted in unopposed. How is that democracy?
District 1 wasn’t even contested and went 47% for Jones.
District 2 actually had a higher margin for Moore than the R rep.
District 3 was a blowout in 2016 and within 3% points on Tuesday.
District 4 is locked in for Republicans, but there’s 30% who went the other way.
District 5 was a 33% blowout last year and within 0.3% this year.
District 6 was near a 50% blowout last year and near 4% on Tuesday.
District 7 is clearly meant to pen in black voters, but there’s 21% who seemingly get no voice in regular elections.
One uncontested election and three blowouts are seemingly in reach next year. District 5 is Mo Brooks who recently announced he has prostate cancer. Democrats should key in on that district. Huntsville is one of the more educated parts of the state.