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To: combjelly who wrote (246868)	8/21/2005 8:06:01 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572383

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. Message 21623963 Which I was guessing about (not knowing the details), and after adding it up, it seems to indeed be the case. Joe