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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (21116)	8/17/2004 10:21:31 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) of 23153

Landslide districts - much of that is due to VERY careful, knowledgeable and computerized gerrymanding. I read article on Willie Brown, former speaker of the State Assembly, spending enormous time on California re-districting. He did things like push the boundary across the street to pick up a mainly Jewish retirement home in a district he wanted safely Democratic. Gerrymandering will then tend to leave a few districts which will then be very extreme. This is how Rep. Bob Dornan (known as "B-1 Bob" for his military support) got a safe district. You are correct that the polarization has gotten extreme - the middle is almost vacant in California, leaving room for a moderate (a "Kennedy republican"?) whose beleifs match 95% of the voting public to run straight up the middle and become Governator in spite of having a strange name....;-) Extreme political rheotirc also can distract the public from who's minding the till. The S&L crisis developed at a time when the country was absorbed by the abortion debate.

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