tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post4031309415600788843..comments2024-03-28T09:54:55.115-05:00Comments on Dad29: Sphincter-Tight for Kagen and obeyDad29http://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post-66272805446066957362010-01-23T08:20:54.079-06:002010-01-23T08:20:54.079-06:00Kagen's defeat is by no means assured, but I w...Kagen's defeat is by no means assured, but I would say his trouble is more than theoretical at this point.Jeremy R. Shownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11303377672028774152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post-628202630190265122010-01-22T18:06:32.248-06:002010-01-22T18:06:32.248-06:00My little ol' county here in NC (pretty rural,...My little ol' county here in NC (pretty rural, lots of poor, only 20% minority) went to court to protest the gerrymandering. We went to the Supreme Court and won. They had to re-draw the districts again ;-)<br /><br />It CAN be done!neomomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830635556787370135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post-78212706963571601352010-01-22T16:22:06.996-06:002010-01-22T16:22:06.996-06:00Oh, we have that here, too.
Except it only affect...Oh, we have that here, too.<br /><br />Except it only affects one District, that in Milwaukee.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post-72600228643995440282010-01-22T15:59:56.361-06:002010-01-22T15:59:56.361-06:00Can you say "gerrymandering"?
The rea...Can you say "gerrymandering"? <br /><br />The reason there are so many districts in the South is that we can't draw our district lines without approval from the Federal courts. If we drew lines with a color-blind eye to population, there'd be a lot fewer Obama-supermajority districts here. If, for example, we established a point in the center of Atlanta, and drew lines outward from it to the state lines, arranging those lines in such a way that (a) we had a final number of districts appropriate to the number of Representatives, and (b) each one was of equal population, probably none of them would produce Democrats reliably. <br /><br />However, the government requires us to draw them a certain way. So, there are a number of places that are what one might call Yellow-Dog districts because they are required to be drawn in an explicitly non-colorblind way.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com