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Kate Barr has no chance of winning this election, and she knows it. Barr is running as a Democrat for North Carolina’s 37th state senate district. If things go as expected, she’ll get around 30 or 35 percent of the vote. That’s because Barr is running in a gerrymandered district. To have a chance of winning, Barr would need an astonishing statistical anomaly—a “99th percentile kind of blue wave,” as she told Reason, to get elected. But just because Barr’s campaign is doomed doesn’t mean she isn’t going to have fun on the way to defeat. “I’ve been training to lose this Senate race for all of my…

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