A Healthy Degree Of Party Unity Among

Human Reason Needs Only To Will More Strongly Than Fate, And She Is Fate.

Votes In Federal Elections Are Cast And Counted In A Highly Decentralized And Variable Fashion, With No Uniform Ballots And Few National Standards.

Redistricting Is A Deeply Political Process, With Incumbents Actively Seeking To Minimize The Risk To Themselves (via Bipartisan Gerrymanders) Or To Gain Additional Seats For Their Party (via Partisan Gerrymanders).

A Healthy Degree Of Party Unity Among Democrats And Republicans Has Deteriorated Into Bitter Partisan Warfare.

With The Parties At Virtual Parity And The Ideological Gulf Between Them Never Greater, The Stakes Of Majority Control Of Congress Are Extremely High.