Tea Party finally farting itself to death?

[TaraJo]

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?

The easiest way would probably be to divide congressional districtsby zip code. Specifically, a congressional district is supposed to have about 700,000 people in it. So, we start with the zip-code 00501, which is the lowest numbered zip code. Does that one, by itself, make up 700,000 people? If no, we add on another zip code; when we finally hit 700,000 people or when we get close enough, we have our congressional district right there. It's going to be more difficult, if not impossible, to gerrimander zip codes.

But there's another problem to fixing gerrimandering: the people who can fix it got into power because of gerrimandering. If they were going to change the rules, they could easily change the rules in such a way that they wouldn't be in power anymore. If we can ever find a way to get the political leaders to vote to fix a system that put them in power in the first place, we'll be able to fix a lot of problems, this one included.