“Rural voters, even though there are fewer of them … actually have an outsize granted power under this process,” said Santorum in leaked audio obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). “And we have the opportunity as a result of that to have a supermajority, even though … we may not even be in an absolute majority when it comes to the people who agree with us, but because of the way the concentration of votes has changed in this country, we can actually accomplish things.”
Thanks to partisan gerrymandering after the 2010 U.S. census, CMD pointed out in a report last month that “Republicans now control 62 of 99 legislative chambers, compared to 37 before 2010, and they control both chambers in 30 states.”