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FZ Fareed Zakaria Fareed Zakaria Journalist and author who hosts CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post, focused on American foreign policy, the US-China ri...

“In this election, because of gerrymandering, there are only 38 competitive seats in the House of Representatives. It is quite possible that the Supreme Soviet, the legislature of the Soviet communist system, had a higher turnover in its legislature than the House of Representatives currently has among itself.”

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026

“In this election, because of gerrymandering, there are only 38 competitive seats in the House of Representatives. It is quite possible that the Supreme Soviet, the legislature of the Soviet communist system, had a higher turnover in its legislature than the House of Representatives currently has among itself.” — Fareed Zakaria, The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Context

Speaking on Election Day, Zakaria contrasts the large number of independent and swing voters with how few House seats are actually competitive after redistricting.

Transcript

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway Around 08:48 into the episode
Fareed Zakaria

…deciding elections in a smaller and smaller number of states. Now the biggest registration is among quote-unquote independents. And that is we have never had as many quote-unquote swing voters. Elections have never been this up for grabs. Talk more about that and what it means for today's election.

Scott Galloway

So 45% of the American electorate is now independents, the highest number ever. And the most interesting new data is around exactly what you said, the sort of malleability of voters. You know, we have this picture of America as totally polarized, tribal,

Fareed Zakaria

…is you had a huge wave of people going toward Trump, but that wave has almost entirely receded. So could this be the new pattern? Large number of independents in the middle. They, for idiosyncratic reasons, for ideological reasons, for God knows what reasons, they move back and forth. And so finally, we get back to actual contestation in American elections. This is what I'm hoping for, because in this election, because of gerrymandering, there are only 38 competitive seats in the House of Representatives. It is quite possible that the Supreme Soviet, the legislature of the Soviet communist system, had a higher turnover in its legislature than the House of Representatives currently has among itself.

Scott Galloway

But that is changing. That's what I'm saying. South Carolina's in play. None of us, that would have been solid Republican just three months ago. Kansas is in play.

Fareed Zakaria

And a lot of these gerrymandering could turn out to backfire. Again, we'll have to see how the results come out. But you see, what happened with gerrymandering is they took a bunch of very solidly Republican seats, seats Republicans would win by 20 points, and they turned them into two districts…

Scott Galloway

In investing, we like to think there's such a thing as an uncorrelated asset, that if you buy a Japanese bond, it has nothing to do with buying NVIDIA. And the reality is over time, everything's become somewhat correlated because of global media. And if the guy has to sell bonds in Japan, that…

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