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Good news from USA Today
While Missouri’s population growth is only projected at 7%, Missouri is not projected to lose a House Seat in 2012 at the moment.
8 Districts, 9 Districts. Place your bets on awkward compromise or a federal judge drawing the lines.
Federal judge. The Repups will continue to control both houses and these guys play hardball. They’ll toss Nixon an odious redisctricting plan, he’ll veto it, wash, rinse, repeat. Enter the Feds.
Didn’t this happen in 2000? I’ve scoured the internetzes and can’t come up with a search term that’ll pull up articles on this.
To be honest, if the Dems controlled both houses, I’d advocate gerrymandering the crap outta our districts. Hardball politics is hardball politics. That being said, in order to get to a 6-3 Dem congressional delegation, we’d hafta to gerrymander districts in such a way as to make TX Repups proud.
Anyhoo, ain’t gonna happen. Repups will submit a plan that’ll be 6-3 in favor of them, 7-2 if they’ve really drunk the kool aid. With a federal judge riding in on a white magic pony, said 9 districts will keep the delegation 5-4 as it is now.
Unless DINO Skelton ever decides to retire, then we go 6-3 since no Dem could carry that seat.
This from the GOS:
http://gardow.com/davebradlee/…
What are the technical requirements for a Congressional district here? Something like 650,000 people per district?