[Eepsy]

If Ohio republicans lose despite gerrymandering, I fail to see how gerrymandering will prevent dems from ever losing should they come into power.

I prefer giving the people of Ohio the decision as to who sets political districts, as opposed to an "independant" commission with powers rooted in a bill that, for all intents and purposes, has mainly been proposed and supported by out of state organizations.

[J-Bro_in_Ohio]

I never said they will never lose if they get the power to gerrymander. They had it before and lost it.

I also never said it was an independent commission, actually if you read above I copied the text from the amendment describing how the "elected" politicans can remove a board member if they are out of line. So by no means are they independent.

Ohio First hasn't even named who their financial backers are (rumored to be out of state also), so how could anyone point fingers over that. Most, if not all of our politicians (on both sides) are funded by out of state organizations, so it's hard to give that any weight in my opinion.

Not to mention that regardless of who financed it, it still had enough Ohioan signatures to get it on the ballot. I don't know about you, but I sure can't afford to help put any measures on the ballot.

I'm not disregarding you point of view though, there's nothing wrong with winner take all. It's been gained and lost to opposing parties many times.
It only takes one party to win the Governer & sec. of state, and they can pretty much gerrymander all they want in the current system.