Thread for arguing about Connecticut redistricting

[vileplume]

Likely D. Anyway it would be stupid to target this district considering that Madigan will gerrymander it in order to make it even more D friendly (you know gerrymandering is good when democrats do it.)

Most people who oppose gerrymandering oppose it for both sides, gerrymandering is bad because it's undemocratic not just for partisan reasons. You're just pulling assumptions out of your ass.

Sure.... you’re really gullible if you believe that democratic politicians / progressive third-groups don’t like gerrymandering, they just want it to benefit them and only them, otherwise the League of Women voters and other « good government » liberal organizations would have already challenged congressional maps in MD/IL/CT/OR

Well, anyone has a right to complain about "Democratic gerrymandering", but Republicans. If you are serial killer - you can't blame someone for minor traffic violation)))). NC/IN/OH/PA, do i need to continue?

As an outside observer Indiana is not Gerrymandered at all. The districts are clean with minimal county splits and are largely based where they 'should' be. The map looks miles better than the 2003-2013 incarnation which had weird, illogical shaped districts. The fact that the congressional delegation is a reasonably assured 7-2 Republican is down to the First Past the Post system and the political geography of the state not because it's gerrymandered.

[vileplume]

Good. Agree. Strike out Indiana. North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio are more, then enough, by itself.

Well Pennsylvania has been rightly corrected by the courts, ditto Virginia. North Carolina is about to be redrawn too leaving Ohio the main state left with a highly egregious Republican Gerrymander (well Texas too but demographic and political changes are about to turn that into a dummymander so the GOP is about to reap what they sowed anyway without they intervention of the courts). So to be fair the courts should also step in to force the likes of Maryland, Illinois and Massachusetts (I never hear this one mentioned but the districts there are really bad) to redraw their districts in a sensible way too.

Hopefully the courts will soon rule all gerrymandering illegal and mandate the use of non-partisan commissions like they have in most other countries with specific set goals such as keeping counties, municipalities and communities of interest as intact as possible.