The Russia and gerrymander worries provide cover for the horrible management of the DNC and other failures by the Democrats. Convenient.
Oh, you don’t have to tell me how Democrats can always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, they are very adept at that. Nevertheless, if the Democrats beat Republicans by 9 points and fail to take the House (my current projection), I think gerrymandering may just be a weensy bit more central to the cause of their failure than any failures at the DNC (and assuredly, there will be some of those). Much as the Democrats stormed the Virginia Assembly races just recently by ten points, but failed to win control of the Assembly. Was gerrymandering just a convenient scapegoat for mismanagement there? Hardly.