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« on: October 21, 2014, 07:10:11 PM »

With the state legislators being so gerrymandered, it might be best to focus on governorships.
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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2014, 09:39:25 PM »
« Edited: October 21, 2014, 09:42:54 PM by Mehmentum »


This is the current state of state governments in terms of redistricting (blue and red indicate a single party control of both houses of congress and the governorship, grey is either mixed control or states with only one district in them).  Democrats really need to focus on flipping Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2014, 08:22:21 AM »

Your answer, from the first paragraph, agrees with what I've been thinking. But, from the second paragraph, I disagree because it should be encouraged to move the United States people off the rigged system of having mostly uncompetitive U.S. House races.

But there's a difference between races being uncompetitive because lines have been drawn in a contrived way to make them uncompetitive, and races being uncompetitive because a natural district happens to share an opinion on who should represent it.
What makes a 'natural' district, there is no objective standard for what makes a district.

That being said, I don't think every district should be made competitive (if that were even possible).    Both very conservative and very liberal voices should be represented in the House.  They just shouldn't hold as much sway as they do now, where they prevent any sort of cooperation from happening.
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« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2014, 08:50:52 PM »


This depressing map is now where redistricting prospects stand.  Grey states either have mixed control, are under an independent commission, or only have a single congressional district.
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« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2014, 09:28:14 PM »


Thanks!
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