State Legislatures and Redistricting

[Skill and Chance]

Um... why?

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Edit: ah... now, this makes no sense. Because 'SkillandChance' has deleted his post. But he expressed delight at the narrow margin in the Colorado House and said that it would mean the Democrats going for CO-3 as at least one Republican would vote for their plan. He provided no evidence of this, so I asked the question above. Rather than actually answer the question, he deleted the post that prompted it.

A. Hickenlooper's new "bipartisan" State Secretary of X (McDonnell almost did this in VA, Beshear did it a few times in KY)

B. Give someone or some group of people on the GOP side safe districts for life as part of the plan

Better yet, turn the whole process over to an independent commission and end all of the gamesmanship!  But they would never think of something like that.  It's too straightforward and rational.

[Skill and Chance]

The only significant states where the Dems had the trifecta in 2000 were Alabama, California (irrelevant, since they just did an incumbent protection map), Georgia (undone in 2005), Maryland, and North Carolina. The Republicans had Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

How in the world did they get that Indiana map past Republicans who had a say?

[Skill and Chance]

From a practical standpoint, I would think the 2/3rds majority means that the Democrats can't run to Ardmore OK to stop redistrciting from occuring.  The 100 Republicans would constitute a quorum.

If they actually wanted to do this, they presumably could.  The Democrats still have 12 out of 31 seats in the State Senate.  I don't think they would have anything to gain by making a scene anyway, though.