How Do I Find Out Who's Running?

[Хahar 🤔]

The main issue I have with congressional elections is that, atleast here, nobody campaigns, and I don't know who is running until I get the voter guide a month or so before the election.  Does anybody know of a good way to find out who's running in my district in 2010?

Answer: Who cares? You're in California.

[Хahar 🤔]

The main issue I have with congressional elections is that, atleast here, nobody campaigns, and I don't know who is running until I get the voter guide a month or so before the election.  Does anybody know of a good way to find out who's running in my district in 2010?

Answer: Who cares? You're in California.

Heh, gerrymandering.

     Definitely. Only with the wonders of gerrymandering can a state with 53 districts manage to have exactly 3 districts where the winner is held to under 60%.

Hopefully Prop 11 will change that.  I doubt it though.  These idiotic propositions have a nasty habit of doing jack-sh**t.

Prop 11's intentions aren't bad, but the way it's executed is horrible.

[Хahar 🤔]

The main issue I have with congressional elections is that, atleast here, nobody campaigns, and I don't know who is running until I get the voter guide a month or so before the election.  Does anybody know of a good way to find out who's running in my district in 2010?

Answer: Who cares? You're in California.

Heh, gerrymandering.

     Definitely. Only with the wonders of gerrymandering can a state with 53 districts manage to have exactly 3 districts where the winner is held to under 60%.

Hopefully Prop 11 will change that.  I doubt it though.  These idiotic propositions have a nasty habit of doing jack-sh**t.

Prop 11's intentions aren't bad, but the way it's executed is horrible.

I think a good solution would be the split-line method.  There's the problem of houses being divided between congressional districts, but that can be fixed by having houses on the border go to the district to the west (which is proposed somewhere on there).

Hmm, I've seen that before. But that's extreme; it solves the problem of gerrymandering by eliminating any relation between districts and communal identity. Some of those districts wouldn't work well at all.