Gerrymandering poll

[Nation]

Maryland really isn't that gerrymandered. Parts of Anne Arundel and Baltimore County are split into 2 or 3 different districts, but District 1 (more conservative)  consists of the entire eastern shore (less population) and is balanced out with Baltimore and some of the more liberal parts of Anne Arundel. Still results in Bush winning about 58% of the vote there in 2000.

[WMS]

I figured y'all might enjoy four of New Mexico's worst gerrymanders...there are more than these, of course.

The State House was a Democratic-friendly gerrymander that, due to the incompetence of the NM Reps in 2002, worked. The State Senate was an incumbent-friendly gerrymander, although not all incumbents were happy with it...that was an odd vote, given who voted with whom...

Anyway, here's House 23, a tattered slice of, well, gerrymandering: http://legis.state.nm.us/DistrictMaps/2002HouseDistricts/House23.pdf

And House 50, a barbell-shaped district reliant entirely on one precinct in Bernalillo County to function:
http://legis.state.nm.us/DistrictMaps/2002HouseDistricts/House50.pdf

And Senate 12, a snake district:
http://legis.state.nm.us/DistrictMaps/2002SenateDistricts/Senate12.pdf

And at last Senate 34, a rather stretched district:
http://legis.state.nm.us/DistrictMaps/2002SenateDistricts/Senate34.pdf

Note that the connections can be S-L-O-W...

[minionofmidas]

Maryland really isn't that gerrymandered. Parts of Anne Arundel and Baltimore County are split into 2 or 3 different districts, but District 1 (more conservative)  consists of the entire eastern shore (less population) and is balanced out with Baltimore and some of the more liberal parts of Anne Arundel. Still results in Bush winning about 58% of the vote there in 2000.

The problem is not in districts one and six. It's the "normal" part of Maryland that's gerrymandered to ensure Reps stay out.