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Republicans might lose the House in a particular election— if there’s a recession in ’02, for example—but they ought to have a majority for most of the next ten years.

Gerrymandering isn’t the only thing helping congressional Republicans. The percentage of voters who pick a Re-publican for Congress has risen slightly in the last two elections. (Yes, Republicans lost seats in both of them. The geographic distribution of votes matters, as A1 Gore could tell you.) Congressional Republicans ran ahead of Bush— and of Gore, for that matter.

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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Republicans might lose the House in a particular election— if there’s a recession in ’02, for example—but they ought to have a majority for most of the next ten years.

Gerrymandering isn’t the only thing helping congressional Republicans. The percentage of voters who pick a Re-publican for Congress has risen slightly in the last two elections. (Yes, Republicans lost seats in both of them. The geographic distribution of votes matters, as A1 Gore could tell you.) Congressional Republicans ran ahead of Bush— and of Gore, for that matter.