Non-Political Districts Would Have Benefited Democrats In 2012, Duke Analysis Shows

Republicans picked up three seats in North Carolina's 2012 congressional elections. The election used districts that had been redrawn by the state's Republican-controlled legislature following the 2010 census. Political gerrymandering is nothing new, but does it thwart the "will of the people" on election day? Researchers at Duke University say a mathematical model they've developed shows that if the exact same votes in 2012 had been cast in differently-drawn districts, the overall results would have changed. WFAE's Mark Rumsey discussed the findings with Jonathan Mattingly, a Duke math professor and one of the study's authors.