I like the Colbert Report better than The Daily Show even though I am smart enough to realize that the show is really making fun of my side, the right side, etc...but it is still very funny.
Do you ever watch the Colbert Report's feature on Congressional Districts? One of the things that struck me about that is the shape of the districts -- they all look like dumbbells, for instance one in New York scoops a bit of an affluent district, I think Scarsdale or some such, and has a thin line that connects it to a big piece of the Bronx. One in New Jersey is two separate non connected islands. Try to find maps of the districts on the internet, it is almost impossible, the politicans want to hide the gerrymandering, but when you take a piece of a red area and add just enough of a blue area to make it all blue, it is as if you are negating the red area vote.