A severe right wing bias perverts all elections for federal office in the United States: Citations

David Leonhardt, ‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy, The New York Times, September 18, 2022

Christopher T. Kenny, Cory McCartan, et al., Widespread Partisan Gerrymandering Mostly Cancels Nationally, but Reduces Electoral Competition, arXiv:2208.06968, August 15, 2022 (“If Democrats win 50% of the popular vote” in 2022 House elections, “we estimate them to win around 210 out of 435 seats. It is not until the Democratic party wins 51.1% of the vote that they would receive half of the seats in the House.”)

Adam Gopnik, Highland Park and an Illegitimate Supreme Court, The New Yorker, July 6, 2022 (“[T]hanks to the Electoral College and the Senate, two of the least representative bodies in the federal government, the Court is elevating a minority view to power through a series of undemocratic measures and actions“).

Max Boot, The Supreme Court rulings represent the tyranny of the minority, The Washington Post, June 24, 2022 (“‘5 of the 6 conservative Supreme Court justices were appointed by a Republican Senate majority that won fewer votes than the Democrats’ and ‘3 of the 6 were nominated by a president who also won a minority of the popular vote.’”).

Nathaniel Rakich, The New National Congressional Map Is Biased Toward Republicans, FiveThirtyEight, June 15, 2022 (House of Representatives following redistricting).

Ian Millhiser, Democracy in America is a rigged game, Vox, Updated Jun 15, 2022.

Simon Bazelon, Democrats are sleepwalking into a Senate disaster, Slow Boring, April 11, 2022 (“Since the Reagan Era, Democrats have averaged roughly 51% of the two-party vote in Presidential elections. If Biden gets this percentage of the vote” in 2024 … “he will likely lose the Electoral College.” And if the “correlation between the Senate and presidential vote stays at close to .95 (as it was in 2020)” … then Republicans will also end up “with somewhere between 56 and 62 Senate seats,” because the Senate “is incredibly biased against the Democratic party” and “the Electoral College is more biased than ever.” (cited by Ross Douthat, Will Democrats Soon Be Locked Out of Power?, New York Times, April 16, 2022)).

Ian Millhiser, America’s anti-democratic Senate, in one number: 41,549,808, Vox, Jan 6, 2021 (“16 percent of the country controls half of the seats in the United States Senate (and that’s not accounting for the fact that DC, Puerto Rico, and several other US territories have no representation at all in Congress)”).

Aaron Blake, How did the GOP gain in the House while Trump lost? It’s actually pretty simple, The Washington Post, Dec. 18, 2020 (showing that in House elections 1996–2020, allocation of seats deviated from popular vote in Republicans’ favor ten times, in Democrats’ favor twice).

Michael Geruso, Dean Spears, and Ishaana Talesara, Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836-2016 (September 6, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3450568 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3450568 (finding a high likelihood of split between Electoral College and popular vote in elections with small popular vote margin and much higher likelihood of Republican candidate winning Electoral College when such splits occur).

Nate Cohn, Trump’s Electoral College Edge Could Grow in 2020, Rewarding Polarizing Campaign, The New York Times, Nov. 17, 2019 (presidency).

Parker Richards, The People v. the U.S. Senate, The Atlantic, Oct 10, 2018 (Senate particularly, and consequences for Supreme Court).

Jim Newell, The Senate Is Drifting Away From Democrats Indefinitely, Slate, Oct 10, 2018 (Senate).

America’s electoral system gives the Republicans advantages over Democrats, The Economist, July 12, 2018.

John Cassidy, Why It’s Right to Be Mad About Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court, The New Yorker, July 11, 2018 (presidency and Senate particularly, and consequences for Supreme Court).

Ronald Brownstein, Small states are getting a much bigger say in who gets on Supreme Court, CNN, July 10, 2018 (Senate particularly, and consequences for Supreme Court).

Jonathan Chait, The Republican Court and the Era of Minority Rule, New York Magazine, June 27, 2018.

David Wasserman, The Congressional Map Has A Record-Setting Bias Against Democrats, FiveThirtyEight, Aug. 7, 2017.

Emily Badger, As American as Apple Pie? The Rural Vote’s Disproportionate Slice of Power, New York Times, Nov. 20, 2016.