This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see

[applegrove]

This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see

By Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/01/this-is-the-best-explanation-of-gerrymandering-you-will-ever-see/

(Just an fyi. I could not get the graphic onto photobucket).

[Make7]

1. Chart image:

[applegrove]

4. Thanks for posting it for me. Really explains it to me as I am from Canada and was not familiar with

the science behind gerrymandering.

[JonLP24]

9. It makes sense though

Arizona voted for on a ballot "independent redistricting" which the equal # of Republicans & Democrats Independent Commission drawing the lines led the Democrats winning the House in Arizona of all states in back-to-back midterms. Currently Democrats have a 5-4 edge, I have a Democrat when for years it was gerrymandering like crazy with this part of Mesa with the entire Fountain Hills & a lot of countryside land. One of the goals was to create districts fair to the interests within the lines so before, city concerns were diminished by all the country land inside lines.

The site was hacked shortly after the midterms so I'm guessing the GOP aren't too happy. Jan Brewer famously fired the chair or the head of the Independent Commission until the judges ruled that she couldn't do that

[merrily]

2. I learned on DU that states can do a lot about this, as has California.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Here's the graphic but it's huge. If you want, I'll delete it.

[applegrove]

5. Thanks.

[yeoman6987]

6. Go to zip codes. Most likely fairest way to

Do House elections.

[msongs]

7. since democrats do this too, looks like repubs have learned well nt

[ashling]

8. Youtube I use in teaching my government classes