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Hedrick Smith

Washington, D.C.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning NYTImes reporter-editor, PBS Emmy winning producer, author, Who Stole the American Dream? .. The Russians and the Power Game.
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A red vs. blue paradigm shift in uniquely dangerous elections

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By Hedrick Smith
| The Seattle Times Verified
WASHINGTON — Stuck in a conventional groove, most of the media are covering the 2022 election as just another rerun of the traditional red vs. blue midterm election where, by historical norms, the in-party gets whacked and loses control of Congress.
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Veteran journalist: Voters the real losers as U.S. gerrymandering wars grow ever more intense

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By Hedrick Smith
| News from the States
WASHINGTON – Partisan gerrymandering has run so wild and rampant since the 2020 census that, hard to believe, the next Congress promises to be even more sharply polarized and gridlocked than the current Congress, and there’s nothing voters can do about it – unless the courts step in boldly, right away. The media focuses on which of the two major parties is winning but ignores the larger story that average voters are the real losers. We are all the collateral-damage victims of gerrymander wars.
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Veteran journalist: Voters the real losers as U.S. gerrymandering wars grow ever more intense

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By Hedrick Smith
| NC Newsline
WASHINGTON – Partisan gerrymandering has run so wild and rampant since the 2020 census that, hard to believe, the next Congress promises to be even more sharply polarized and gridlocked than the current Congress, and there’s nothing voters can do about it – unless the courts step in boldly, right away. The media focuses on which of the two major parties is winning but ignores the larger story that average voters are the real losers. We are all the collateral-damage victims of gerrymander wars.
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