Democrats Ramp Up Redistricting Plans In Effort To Avoid Repeating 2010 Fiasco

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Democrats Ramp Up Redistricting Plans In Effort To Avoid Repeating 2010 Fiasco

by Sam Stein at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-ramp-up-redistricting-plans-in-effort-to-avoid-repeating-2010-fiasco_56701109e4b011b83a6c784b?e0nc23xr

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WASHINGTON -- In an acknowledgement of the steep climb they face to regain control of the House of Representatives, three top Democratic campaign committees will meet this week to plot strategy for redrawing the congressional map, roughly five years before it will be altered.

Top officials from the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee will attend the meeting at the DGA's offices in downtown D.C. on Thursday. An official with the Democratic National Committee will also attend.

With the underlying goal of producing a sophisticated and coordinated redistricting effort to match Republicans, Thursday’s strategy session is seen as the first of many steps in recalibrating the balance of power in the states and on Capitol Hill.

"We’ve got to get ready and to get ready we have to get everybody around the table,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, chair of the DGA, told The Huffington Post. “We need to make sure everyone is paying attention to this issue now. Each year, between now and the year after the census, we have important elections that will determine whether Republicans will jerry-rig a permanent majority or whether we can make it a fair map.”



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