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Edited on Sun May-02-04 10:42 AM by ps1074
Take a close look at this swing states and their congressional delegations:
Pennsylvania - 6 democrats and 13 republicans. More than 2/3 of the delegation is republican. Meanwhile voting trends in this state don't suggest anything like this big advantage. Same is with the following states:
Florida - 7 democrats and 18 republicans. Here the ratio is even worse.
Ohio - 6 democrats and 12 republicans. Again - 1/3 Dem and 2/3 republican representation.
Are these districts gerrymandered? With the new republican drawn districts in Texas democrats will be left with probably just 10 seats out of 32.
Obviously democrats need to start using this tactic too. Start a massive campaign to elect as much democrats in the state legislatures. Once they have taken over the state legislatures, immediately redraw the congressional districts as the repubs have done in Texas.
It is really a shame such strong Dem states as California, NY and NJ don't have more Dem representative. CA - 33 dems and 20 repubs NY - 19 dems and 10 repubs NJ - 7 dems and 6 repubs
Not to mention redrawing Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. These 3 should have a parity in their representation. Here dems can gain 10-12 seats to better represent the people. Strip 5 or 6 republican seats in CA, 3 or 4 seats in NY and a seat or 2 on NJ and you'll have 10 to 12 seat net gain again.
Just from these 6 states democrats can gain more than 20 seats.
edit - I forgot to mention Michigan. 6 democrats and 9 republicans? Give me a break. This needs to be 9 democrats and 6 republicans :)
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