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To: zax who wrote (858190)	5/18/2015 3:56:29 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574478

The Democrats gerrymander at least as much as the Republicans do. * The Democrats get a lot of house votes in the big cities, which they have come to strongly dominate. You don't get extra credit in terms of seats in the house when you win the race in a district by 40% instead of 4%. ---------- * and that's being generous for example see this monstrosity newrepublic.com planning.maryland.gov for an overall statistical analysis see cdn.azavea.com specifically "The mean Polsby-Popper, Schwartzberg and Reock scores indicate that districts drawn with total GOP control have a higher compactness score than districts drawn with total Democratic control under those measures. States with split control fall in the middle. Nevertheless, districts with a political party in control remain less compact than the national average by every measure. In addition, districts where a party has control are significantly less compact than districts drawn by a non-partisan process (see Table 9). Using the convex hull measure shows a different story. Districts drawn by a split in control come out with a higher compactness score, with districts drawn by the GOP not far behind. Districts drawn by the Democratic Party are much less compact than either." --- For a good example see planning.maryland.gov