Redistricting: Home to Roost

Aggressive redistricting was one of the things that infuriated me about the Republican Congress. This article, focusing on Philadelphia and its suburbs, and points out how it may have backfired on them. Suhweet.

Redistricting: Home to Roost - WSJ.com: "Redistricting, the traditionally once-a-decade process of redrawing of House districts to adjust to population trends, has always been a contentious procedure. But Republicans, under the leadership of Mr. DeLay, took the opportunity to use it as a reward or punishment to new heights in 2002.

In so doing, Republicans created two new vulnerabilities: the dangerous dilution of core voters and the nurturing of a sense of invulnerability that contributes to corruption and scandal."