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Virginia Democrats' absurd gerrymander effectively goes to the voters Tuesday.

Actually, it's been to the voters for quite some time in an extended period of early voting.

But these same Democrats who like to preach about getting politics out of political mapmaking

when they are not in power, of course, are hitting the referendum circuit on Tuesday, as said. Our guest today is

Charles Blahouse, senior research strategist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

to talk about the contortion of this map, which is ultimately the real problem.

Good day, sir. Thank you so much for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. Well, in my humble estimation, there are a number of problems with this map,

but as you note, the U.S. Supreme

Court is not all that interested in the partisan claims, you know, that this is a partisan

gerrymander here or there. There are all kinds of partisan gerrymanders because, well, as we know, to the,

to the victor go the spoils. All of that said, though, there are boundaries to the boundaries.

Are there not? Well, there are. And actually in your intro, I was thinking you've preempted

a good deal of what I'm going to say,

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