Race the rudder. Raise the sails. Raise the sales.

Captain, an unidentified ship approaching. Over.

Roger that. Wait. Is that an enterprise sales solution?

Reach sales professionals, not professional sailors. With LinkedIn ads, you can target the right people by industry, job title and more.

Start converting your B2B audience into high-quality leads today. today spend 200 pounds on your first campaign and get a 200 pound credit for the next one go to lincoln dot com slash lead to claim your offer terms and conditions apply all right so i just finished the show but i'm getting a lot of questions from members subscribers who want to know about gerrymandering and the census and what's going on with that and the history and all that stuff.

I'm happy to answer your questions, but I'm not staying at the office. I'm going home, so just come with me and I'll explain. So let's talk about the magic, the magic of congressional redistricting and apportionment. Yes, I know you're into it. Okay, fine. So here's how it works. Under the Constitution of the United States, the number of congressional districts held by any particular state is dependent on the number of people counted in the U.S. Census for that particular state.

So, for example, if the census finds that there are two million people in a given state, then you get a certain number of congressional districts for that population, and that should hold for all the different states, obviously.

Now, the question is how those districts get drawn?

Because you can imagine a situation in which a state with a 50% Republican population and 50% Democrat population ends up with 50% Republicans, 50% Democrats,

or you can imagine a situation in which the districts are drawn just so, so you end up with basically 90% Republicans and 10% Democrats, or you can imagine a situation in which the districts are drawn just so,

so you end up with basically 90% Republicans and 10% Democrats, or vice versa.

And it's the latter thing that has happened.

So that began in 1812 with the guy named Elbridge Gary.

Okay, gerrymandering really should be called gerrymandering.

Elbridge Gary was the Massachusetts governor, and he decided that he was going to draw the districts in a particular way.

One of those districts looked like a salamander.

It was a very weird district on the map, and so people said that it was a gerrymander.

Get it?

A gerrymander.

That's where that comes from.

And so to this day, in most states you have the state legislature determining exactly what the congressional districts look like.

Now, very early on, there was actually no mandate, believe it or not, that every single congressional district represent the same number of people.

...