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A very thoughtful article on the issue of congressional districts.

Democrats hope that people don't notice that in order to engineer districts to favor them, they must gerrymander every bit as much as they accuse Republicans of doing.

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Another great passage from the article:

The Democrats apparently find it inconceivable they are losing elections because of what they stand for. The country is not with them when it comes to abortion on demand, the abolition of Second Amendment rights, forced unionization, identity politics and, among other things, the demands for so-called social justice made by those raised in a culture of victimization. America remains a center-right country where most people, as anti-tax crusader Grover G. Norquist has observed time and again, just want to be left alone.

[originalbuckeye]

I am for having a computer draw up the Districts. And no, it wouldn’t infringe on ‘minority rights to be represented’ as minorities tend to live in areas surrounded by people like themselves. A computer drawing up the right number of Districts per state, with as close to population parity, is the only fair way to do it.

[cyclotic]

Maryland is ground zero. The lone republican district wraps around my town. The congressional map looks like a monkey projectile vomited on a state map and they circled the puke with a sharpie.

[TBP]

The most gerrymandered districts are in Democrat-controlled states. MD-3 is the single most gerrymandered district in America.

[Pajamajan]

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[Political Junkie Too]

...gerrymanders – the name given the practice of drawing oddly-shaped legislative districts to produce an outcome favorable to one party...

Sheila Jackson Lee's district, supposedly in Houston.

-PJ

[BBB333]

The map of my congressional district is fairly simple:

The entire state of Montana.

[RedStateRocker]

“Gerrymandering” is what the side you are opposed to does :-)

We really need districts designed by algorithm, required to be as compact as possible regardless of who it hurt or helps.

[discostu]

Both sides love to gerrymander, and love to complain about the other side doing it, hoping nobody will pay attention to what they’re doing. It’s part of why the system is irretrievably broken and cannot be fixed as long as parties exist. Parties will always be loyal to themselves first.

[Deplorable American1776]

Gerrymandering happens in many states..CT-1 (Hartford area) is shaped like a backwards C. CT-2 is eastern CT (if Middletown - home of Leftleyan University - was in CT-1, CT-2 would be R), CT-3 is New Illegal Haven..CT-4 is the Gold coast area and if CT-5 could take some of CT-1 towns it might go R, too. In the 90s CT had 3 RS and 3 D’s, now 5 D’s.