Kyle Kondik: The Long Red Thread: How Democratic Dominance Gave Way to Republican Advantage in US House Elections

This is a new book by Crystal Ball’s Kyle Kondick. Here’s the release from the editors describing the book, along with information about how to get it:

The Long Red Thread tells the story of House elections since the early 1960s — when a series of Supreme Court decisions enshrined the principle of “one person, one vote” into the congressional redistricting process — and explains why Republicans now hold more advantages in the battle for control even as Democrats retain the power to win majorities.

In the excerpt below, Kyle lays out the big-picture arguments from his book and notes the importance of electoral nationalization, political realignment, and congressional redistricting and reapportionment in helping Republicans both break the Democratic hammerlock on the House majority in 1994 and win majorities more often in the roughly 3 decades since that pivotal election.

— The Editors

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