Voters From Both Parties Support Gerrymandering, But Only If It Helps Their Own Side Win: POLL

A majority of voters in both political parties support gerrymandering to bolster their own side’s chances in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a Politico poll released Friday.

Fifty-four percent of Democratic voters and 52% of GOP voters favor redrawing congressional district maps as a way to “gain advantage” in the midterms, the newly released Politico survey shows. Moreover, 68% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans back redistricting in order to “neutralize the other party,” according to the poll.

However, a Marquette Law School poll released on Wednesday found that 71% of all voters said they were opposed to states redrawing their congressional maps mid-decade. Meanwhile, only 28% of respondents said they favored mid-decade redistricting, according to the Marquette Law School survey.

A minority — 38% — of Americans backed drawing political maps through an “independent, politically neutral” process, according to the Politico poll.

The Politico survey found that 34% of respondents said political maps should be drawn by state legislatures but approved by voters, while 7% said they should be drawn by state legislatures without approval by voters and 21% responded they were unsure.

On Tuesday, a three-judge federal panel ruled 2-1 that Texas cannot use its newly redrawn Republican-backed congressional map which Republican Gov. Greg