Electoral changing: How One Party May Dominate the Presidential Election.
While the nation watched the inauguration of President Obama, a stone’s throw away in Virginia, the Republicans, who controlled a majority of the state’s House of Representatives, passed a bill that would allow their party an advantage in the next presidential election. The bill would change the electoral districts in the state, creating one majority black district but dispersing the black vote in other places. This change would also be coupled with a change in how the state would award its Electoral College votes.