Assertion: election's outcome | /r/HasProperty | predetermined by district’s partisan makeup
Facets:
value: effectively
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: If you focus on general elections, he said, your view is going to be obscured by the fact that 80 to 90 percent of congressional races have outcomes that are effectively predetermined by the district’s partisan makeup — and the people that win those elections are still given (and then must spend) ridiculous sums of money because, again, big donors like to curry favor with candidates they know are a sure thing.