Illinois legislative election targets for 2018

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Wait am I reading correctly that Democrats netted one more seat from their 2012 3.5% victory than from their 2008 17.4% victory?? Because that sounds like some pretty bananas gerrymandering.

They basically bacon stripped every single majority black district, stretching them all out to lily-white exurban areas.

[smoltchanov]

Wait am I reading correctly that Democrats netted one more seat from their 2012 3.5% victory than from their 2008 17.4% victory?? Because that sounds like some pretty bananas gerrymandering.

They basically bacon stripped every single majority black district, stretching them all out to lily-white exurban areas.

That's exactly what a politician, who wants to win, would do. What for do you need these 90%+ districts, especially, if as a result, you are mostly confined to them, and lose a lot of other districts to opponents by, say, 54-46?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Wait am I reading correctly that Democrats netted one more seat from their 2012 3.5% victory than from their 2008 17.4% victory?? Because that sounds like some pretty bananas gerrymandering.

They basically bacon stripped every single majority black district, stretching them all out to lily-white exurban areas.

That's exactly what a politician, who wants to win, would do. What for do you need these 90%+ districts, especially, if as a result, you are mostly confined to them, and lose a lot of other districts to opponents by, say, 54-46?

[smoltchanov]

Wait am I reading correctly that Democrats netted one more seat from their 2012 3.5% victory than from their 2008 17.4% victory?? Because that sounds like some pretty bananas gerrymandering.

They basically bacon stripped every single majority black district, stretching them all out to lily-white exurban areas.

That's exactly what a politician, who wants to win, would do. What for do you need these 90%+ districts, especially, if as a result, you are mostly confined to them, and lose a lot of other districts to opponents by, say, 54-46?

In principle - i am all out for independent redistricting commissions, absolutely against any gerrymandering, and so on. But it must be two-way process. If one side stubbornly refuses to adhere to it - another will abandon it too. Sooner or later...