Liberal Delusions Re:Gerrymandering - piss your pants funny

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Democrats Realize Good Government Is Bad Politics When It Comes to Maps
A decade ago, the party sought independent redistricting commissions. Now, in an era of extreme gerrymandering, such efforts could slow Democrats as they try to keep up with Republicans.

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Not long ago, Democrats had dreams of restoring fairness to America’s grotesquely gerrymandered political maps.

Their party began a major push for independent commissions to draw congressional districts after President Trump and Republicans swept into power in 2017. Democrats, panicked about Republicans’ structural gains after the 2010 census, succeeded in enacting such commissions in Colorado, Michigan and Virginia, while Republicans mostly kept politically minded state legislators in charge of drawing maps in red states.

Now Democrats are finding that their old good-government policies have become bad politics.

Their idealistic push for fairness is, it turns out, no match for the Republicans’ maximalist redistricting effort. The independent commissions that Democrats pushed for eight years ago, along with ones in Washington State and California that predated Mr. Trump’s rise, have complicated the party’s redistricting fight.

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