US House Redistricting: Maryland

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Especially sick given his advanced age.

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Maryland looks the way it does because it lost every single border dispute it ever had, including a costly one with Delaware.

It's the Serbia of U.S states.

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Guys, please, please. All of these maps are disgusting.  They cannot be defended. Heck, some of mine are disgusting; it depends the purpose for which I am drawing the map, and what I think the political culture of a state is. Let's not pretend otherwise. It's all about power, unrestrained power. It's the functional equivalent of total political war now. There is no civility left. There once was.  Yes there was. I recall, barely, the days when John McCormick used to protect the GOP seat of Congressman Martin.

Quite. No political party ever 'earns' the right to effectively rig elections and no politician ever 'earns' the right to handpick their electors. That it happens is just regrettable political reality and not much else.

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Christ wept.

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Perhaps they were inspired by the coastline

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Considering how pathetic the GOP is at winning even McCain districts on the local level in Maryland, I don't see them taking a 56% Obama seat. Bartlett is an older than dirt dude no one cares about, he's not surviving in that. A panhandle Republican isn't going to get the numbers in Montco needed to take that. And Montco Republicans might as well be extinct.

Presumably Bartlett will retire don't you think?

If he knows what's good for him.

No real indication of that in his track record, though.

Perennial candidate who hit the jackpot very early, so...

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Seventh-day Adventist as well.

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Seventh-day Adventist as well.

Yes. That's a real reason to miss him.

With something like 11 kids no?  If we just had a few more like him, Social Security could be made solvent without having to cut much - or tax more - a veritable freebie! 

Yeah, but just imagine the housing crisis.

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Seventh-day Adventist as well.

What is wrong with being one?

When did I say that?

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I believe it was drawn by William Donald Schaefer, who used the map to screw over his political enemies (regardless of party) and give out favors to friends.

Ah, yeah. What a guy.