Could someone explain to me .. Just what in the Hell-0 .. “redistricting” is all about, why it’s necessary and how are the Demon-Rats using it to steal more power?
Thanks
Every state draws the lines for its congressional, state (state rep and state senate) and local seats every 10 years.
State legislatures draw up the plans for federal and state seats.
Adding three heavily Dem precincts to a swing seat is sometimes enough to make the seat favor the Dems.
The Governor has veto power over the Legislature’s plans.
That’s why it’s especially important to elect a Republican state legislature and governor in as many states as possible.
“Every 10 years it’s time for reapportionment and redistricting. The Framers of the Constitution created the first regularly scheduled national census and required, for the first time that I am aware, that representation in a legislature be apportioned according to population.
“Reapportionment is automatic: A statutory formula takes the census figures and apportions the 435 House districts among the 50 states. Wyoming and five other states will each get one, California will probably get 53 and the rest some number in between.
“Seven states, according to projections by Polidata Inc., will gain a House seat, and Texas will gain four; nine states will lose a House seat, and Ohio will lose two. Overall, states carried by John McCain in 2008 will gain a net seven seats (and electoral votes) and states carried by Barack Obama will lose seven.
“But that doesn’t necessarily mean Republicans will gain House seats. That depends on redistricting, how the lines are drawn by the politicians in each state (or in a couple of cases by nonpartisan commissions).
“That’s particularly true in states with large numbers of districts and densely packed metropolitan areas. You can’t do much gerrymandering in a state with only a few districts. But you can in states with more than four or five.
“Eighteen months ago it looked like Democrats were going to profit from redistricting. An optimistic scenario for Democrats, extrapolating from the 2008 election results, was that if they could gain three governorships and three state senates and otherwise hold what they had, they would control redistricting in 14 states with more than five districts, including California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina and New Jersey.
“Those states are projected to have 195 districts in the House elected in 2012. Clever redistricting could move between one and two dozen into the Democratic column. That would have been the Democrats’ best redistricting cycle since the one following the 1980 census.” — Michael Barone
Now: LOOK UP “GERRYMANDERING” yourself.
Redrawing the boundaries of Congressional Districts. So you can string together impoverished or ghetto areas for example, along with a minority of conservative areas. A district configured in this way would vote Demon-cat all day long. You can google the term “ gerrymandering” for a more detailed explanation.