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Is Gerrymandering getting worse?
As I was doing research for a future post, I came across this project website by Jeffrey B. Lewis, Brandon DeVine, Lincoln Pitcher, and Kenneth C. Martis, researchers at UCLA, that is a great source...
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Gerrymandering: Best Practices
Though admittedly not a very recent article, Redistricting: A Devil’s Dictionary by Olga Pierce, Jeff Larson and Lois Beckett in Propublica gives an interesting summary of the insiders’ terms for...
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What can I do? Here’s something that takes 10 minutes!
Gerrymandering is obviously an obstacle to getting reasonable representative government. It’s going to take a long time and a lot of work to fix, and the special interests will not go quietly. It can...
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LLoyd Doggett and the Winnebago District
In a recent post I related the four primary tools in the gerrymanderer’s toolkit, as defined in an informative Propublica piece: Kidnapping, Cracking, Packing and Hijacking. Astonishingly, all four of...
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Keystone State Gerrymandering
Really funny example I ran across this morning: take a look at this Keystone Politics post from last week. The writer lifts Pennsylvania’s State Senator Daylin Leach‘s Facebook page entry on a...
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From Idea to Advocacy
I am happy to accept Noah Kennedy’s invitation to contribute to his blog in spite of the fact that I have no credentials in math, cartography, or computer software. What I can offer readers is a...
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Everyone’s concerned, but “Hands-Off” is not in the discussion
Is the public at large knowledgeable of and concerned about Gerrymandering? A quick scan of polling in the past year would indicate there is both broad understanding and broad concern about what it is...
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Samantha Bee discovers Gerrymandering in Austin, Texas
Love Samantha Bee! And wouldn’t want to contemplate life without The Daily Show. This isn’t one of her/their best (in general the Daily Show seems to be weakly pandering to Austin’s self-conscious...
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You’ve Been Gerrymandered
noahkennedy:Just to demonstrate that gerrymandering slices both ways… Originally posted on Maryland's GOP Legislative District 15: FROM THE MALL TO THE MOUNTAINS The Washington Post put the...
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Can single-member districts ever be truly fair?
Recently I’ve been challenged in a very forceful but thoughtful way by a WordPress user who uses the handle realrepresentation. This reader advocates Proportional Representation as the system the...
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Gerrymandering results in dismal turnouts – Richmond Times-Dispatch
Very persuasive Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial with examples from Virginia’s experience that gerrymandering leads to a vicious cycle of low voter turnout and congressional races that are uncontested...
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How do we get rid of Gerrymandering?
A new follower of this blog from Texas wrote me recently asking what he could do to help get rid of Gerrymandering. It is a really good question- one that I wish I could answer better. But let me take...
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Gerrymandering causes Global Warming
The portrait of Lamar Smith that really matters I could post a picture of Lamar Smith, the Republican chair of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, but suffice it to say he’s an old...
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How could anyone say that? Here’s how…
Gerrymandering and different points of view about the unrest in Charlotte NC Continue reading →
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Barack Obama and Eric Holder take on Gerrymandering
One of the intriguing sub-themes to emerge from the 2016 elections is the news, first reported by Politico, that President Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder intend to focus their future...
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Gerrymandering, Cities and Economic Growth
Brenton Mock has a must-read article in The Atlantic’s CityLab exploring how state-level gerrymandering consistently short-changes the priorities of people who live in cities. It is an important point,...
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