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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Thu Sep 18, 2014, 02:03 AM Sep 2014

WTF ...160

Found it, and we call other govmints corrupt ..???

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/americas-most-gerrymandered-congressional-districts/

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WTF ...160 (Original Post) pbmus Sep 2014 OP

I am gerrymandered. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #1

A clump of east coast is practically black, not pink. merrily Sep 2014 #2

My district in southeastern PA is shown as pink starroute Sep 2014 #3

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

1. I am gerrymandered.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 04:43 AM

Sep 2014

Fec.

merrily

(45,251 posts)

2. A clump of east coast is practically black, not pink.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 05:07 AM

Sep 2014

Hmmm, judging by how much they had to gerrymander Louisiana, it looks as though maybe it is not as much of a red state as I assumed, even after they tried to re-locate NOLA's Katrina/Rita survivors to a nice safely red district in Texas and other places. Southern tip of Texas, too.

Thank you for posting this pbmus. Talk about one picture being worth 1000 words!

starroute

(12,977 posts)

3. My district in southeastern PA is shown as pink

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 12:05 PM

Sep 2014

Its boundaries aren't as outrageous as that block of black just to the west. But they tweaked it just enough in the last redistricting to turn what has been a swing district more Republican. Sometimes gerrymandering is subtle enough to fly under the radar.

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