cj,
Doubt it seriously. For one, the previous districts were done under court order because the legislature couldn't agree. For another, about 58% of Texans have been voting Republican, now we have 20 out of 32 districts with Republican representatives.
I know many have strong personal feeling about things for various reasons, math not being one of them. If Republicans get 58% of the vote, isn't the 20:12 for Republicans actually closer to that than 15:17 for Democrats that Delay was trying to rectify?
Let me see:
17:15 for Democrats means Democrats receiving 53.1% of the representation or 11.1% over "par".
Ideally, Democrats would get 42% of the representation and Republicans 58%, which works out to 13 for Democrats and 19 for Republicans.
Now if you say now it is 12:20, it is just short of the ideal result. The personalities will always be an issue, and there may always be an abarent case.
Percentage wise, Delay result deviates only 4.5% from "par" vs. 11.1% of the pre-Delay plan.
The only way you would have a computer program come up with these districts is if it was done on a contract by DeLay...
My point was this: you can have a computer come up with the shapes of the districts, and it would always come closer (in numerical outcome) to the DeLay redistricting than to Democrat redistricting.
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Which I was guessing about (not knowing the details), and after adding it up, it seems to indeed be the case.
Joe |
