How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission

[Brittain33]

The examples they cited add up to one distict solidified for the Dems (McNerney), one kept from being made less safe (Sanchez), and one where the dispute was intra-party (Chu losing a Latino city.) Some of the developments south of San Joaquin were pretty unfriendly for Dems, giving then more uncertainty around Fresno, Bakersfield, and San Bernardino. It looks like the general factors muon identified in drawing the maps where what led to the Pubbie massacre there...

...although I would love to know if there's a dirty story associated with Simi Valley being sent to a solid R district.

[Brittain33]

However, the slanted data was not the cause of the of the biased maps, but rather a deliberate, intentional, malicious and willfull distortion which would not have occurred if an honest-unbiased consultant had been hired.

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