[wk4bush2004]

Well, at least the RATS won't take power in Georgia.

[mwyounce]

Democrats scoffed, saying the map approved in March by the state's first-ever Republican-led Legislature was just as partisan as the one Democrats crafted after the 2000 Census.

Hmm....

[The Great Yazoo]

The map is obviously aimed at Jim Marshall and John Barrow.

The fate of liberal Democrats (even as they pretend to be moderates) in a red state.

[dmcnash]

I pray I'll get out of John Lewis' district again. The last three decades have been a real roller coaster ride from Newt in the 1980's to Lewis in the 1990 redistricting, I move into Newt's new district in 1997 only to be redistricted back into Lewis' in 2000.

[AuH2ORepublican]

While I supported the Texas redistricting because the legislature had not adopted a plan after the 2000 Census, the Georgia legislature had already approved a (horribly partisan and gerrymandered) redistricting plan in 2001 or 2002. Thus, I don't think that the new plan should (or will) be able to be put into effect. If state legislatures are allowed to redistrict every two years even when the current legislatively approved plan has not been declared unconstitutional, you can bet that district lines will be changing every two years in dozens of states. I think that GA Republicans should have pursued a court challenge to one or more of the districts in the current plan, and if just one district is declared illegal or unconstitutional the Republican legislators can then redistrict the whole state and eliminate the RATs' absurd monstrosity of a gerrymander.