So question before we begin, is the census a poll? Kind of?

It's asking a bunch of people questions, but it's not like weighted. It's more of a count.

I feel like it's a weird to call it a poll.

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics podcast. I'm Gailan Drouk. Democrats were locked out of a

special election runoff in Texas's sixth congressional district in Saturday's primary.

It was a jungle primary, so Democrats and Republicans competed together, and the top two vote

gutters, both of whom are Republicans, will advance to the runoff. That precludes a democratic

win in what was expected to be the most competitive house special election this year.

The district is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and Trump won it by three points in 2020.

We'll take a look at what happened there, and we're also going to check in on the results of

the census and the states that will be gaining and losing congressional seats as a result.

The latest apportionment of congressional seats continued a long-term trend of political power

shifting from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, but not by as much as was originally

expected. That has sparked some speculation of an undercount. Finally, we're going to discuss a

project from my colleagues here at 538 that contextualizes the ways in which are political institutions,

the Senate, the House, state legislatures, and more benefit Republicans in ways that were both

intended and unintended. So here with me to discuss it all, our senior politics writer Perry

Bacon Jr. Hey Perry. Good to see you, Galen. You too. Also here with us, elections analyst Nathaniel

Raikich, Hayne Nathaniel. Morning, Galen. And politics reporter Alex Samuel's. Hey, Alex.

Howdy, Galen. How's it going? I love the Howdy. Representing Texas today. In fact, we're going to

talk about Texas today. Very excited for Texas six today. Awesome. Okay, well, let's get to it.

We're going to start with census, though, and then we'll get to Texas six. So to begin our

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