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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (266351)12/29/2005 2:18:57 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1577918
 
Redistricting has never been a good thing

I disagree. Perhaps you mean gerrymandering has never been a good thing?

Yes......gerrymandering.

However, Delay and GOP decided to take it a step further and do it twice in three years. Probably they would have done it a couple times more before the decade was out had they not been stopped by other events.

It might not be totally unreasonable to argue that it was a bad thing, but then so were the heavily gerrymandered districts the Dems had put in place that left the GOP severely underrepresented compared to their percent of the vote. I think the later was a worse thing, the GOP's redistricting at least the representation more closely follow the actual vote. Really "taking it up a notch" would probably have left almost no Democratic districts in Texas.

No. No. No. The issue isn't the gerrymandering per se nor its quality nor whether the GOP version was better or worse than the Dem. version. The issue that is offensive is the fact that since the 2000 census, the GOP has gerrymandered twice in TX. That had never been done before. Usually, gerrymandering occurs once per decade right after the latest census. They took a questionable thing and made it worse.

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