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We are witnessing the big issue with gerrymandered districts.
The more gerrymandered the more batshit insane people you get into office since they always win their primaries and then will always win the general.
Anything could happen but I don't think this guy has a chance amazing McCarthy. I'm sure McCarthy has pretty deep ties in his district. I'd love it if Giglio beat McCarthy and then a moderate Democrat won the seat though.
If you're trying to gerrymander in a sinister way you don't want to win counties in a land slide. You want to split up your opponents' counties and concentrate the rest in as few counties as possible so that they lose.
Here's an example with two parties: X and O
Undivided population:
XXXXXXOOOOOO
Situation 1:
XXX XXX OOO OOO
Situation 2:
XXO XXO XXO OOO
Situation 1 is probably the fairest because the population is 50/50 and they have 2 X representatives and 2 O representatives.
Situation 2 is gerrymandered by party X to give them 3 representatives, but it takes fewer Xs to switch and damage the majority. The Os have no real X challengers in the 4th district (OOO).