Posted on 08/20/2011 1:39:41 PM PDT by Libloather
HA HA HA...use to have all of Travis Cty which is Austin, TX. liberal hole. He barely has any of Travis Cty. He now has a whole bunch of republican counties...
There are a whole lot more than five vulnerable Dems, a couple dozen who are in very deep trouble politically. In the generic ballot, GOP beats Dems by about 7%. They are going to get stomped into the dust unless unemployment drops below 8% (which is impossible with the socialist in our White House).
Critz occupies the district that John Murtha had. Gerrymandered beyond belief. I heard, a year and a half ago, that that district might be eliminated. Yay!!! Go away Critz!!
Doggett can still run in a district that it includes most of Austin’s liberal neighborhoods, but the CD also takes in many overwhelmingly Hispanic precincts in South San Antonio and Doggett would have a much tougher time beating a San Antonio Hispanic Democrat in the primary than he did against that underfunded Hispanic Democrat (her last name was Hinojosa, nonrelation to the congressman, IIRC) from McAllen in 2004 back when his district squirreled south all the way to the Mexican border (when Doggett bought himself plentiful endorsements from Lower Rio Grande Valley Hispanic Democrats). So I think that Doggett will finally be gone.
The Supreme Court believes otherwise.
Majority minority districts were created in response to a SCOTUS dictate.
. I elieve TPT meant Asheville was a town with a college, not a college town.
Personally, I prefer to think of Asheville as the San Francisco of the Smokies...
Math question:
Is there a reason that an algorith could not draw district boundaries to simply minimize the length of the district boundaries, i.e., compact contiguous districts and no gerrymandering possible?
It is possible and has been done --
But to be legal, the districts would have to comply with the Voting Rights Act and applicable court decisions.
There are also common sense guidelines that may make more sense than strict compactness, such as grouping communities of interest and following existing political boundaries (precinct, town, city, county lines).
FIVE????? ONLY FIVE????? Good freaking grief!! It SHOULD be 195!!!!!
YMCA doesn’t “dominate” Asheville like, for instance, HVAC dominates Athens, or UF Gainesville in traditional college towns.
Congress should do their job and impeach several of the justices. Well, at this point it needs to wait until after 2012.
I really wish 20 or 30 year limits would be put on the Justices. Life time appointments for these clowns is insane.
Bye Bye Peters!
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