(February 17, 2014 at 10:38 am)Raeven Wrote:(February 17, 2014 at 9:51 am)TaraJo Wrote: The House is a different story. If your district is 85% Republican (which is pretty damn common, especially in big states like Texas or Florida), the only way a Republican candidate is going to lose is in the primaries, where they lose by being too moderate. The general election will be a cake-walk for any politician who happens to put an 'R' at the end of his name.
This raises an important question I've been meaning to ask, because I have no idea: How do we fix gerrymandering? It's a big problem and has been for a long time, yet I've never heard anyone propose a solution to it. Thoughts?
We don't have a problem in the UK with it because we have an independent electoral commission who redraws boundaries every twenty years or so.
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