count me in. see, he d been watching when i did a segment on that subject on my primetime special on cnn called fixing the divide. and arnold tweeted his gratitude for covering the issue. i even mentioned his tweet when i came back from a commercial break. check it out look at who tweeted in realtime, the terminator. smerconish, glad you re shining a light on gerrymandering. we reformed in california. i know you did. i give you constant credit on my sirius x.m. program. come here and talk to me about it, okay? i caught his eye because a few days prior he had released a facebook video to try and educate about his pet cause, and it went viral. here are some of the things more popular than congress hemorrhoids, nick helloback, comroaches, root canals, cologneond piece, herpes
raised her hand and asked, did you mean crate and barrel? and i think that drove home the bubble mentality. both of you know, i eat the chicken fried steak and drink the asparagus water at whole foods. you re the contrarian. you re the one who s been telling me for years that michael, don t overemphasize the impact of gerrymandering. explain. part of the reason is what he just said. not that the districts are competitive but not competitive for reasons that are not because of political gerrymandering. of course, that would mean that you would have to actually gerrymander to create competitive districts and one thing to remember is that the districting that takes place does try to work along the lines of normal interests, so cities, you have city districts and, you know, suburban districts and rural districts. and that s what you want representatives to do and to create, you would have affirm gerrymander districts that
didn t make sense from that perspective. you two are both bright guys but i have to believe that gerrymander, do we have any of the crazy maps and if we do put them up on the screen, because, come on guys. look at some of this stuff. it s like modern art for crying out loud. it s not a part. there certainly is some gerrymandering but it s not stop right there. i know that district. and by the way, the guy who represents, it s a good guy named pat. those are the suburbs of pfld. but that map was drawn to keep the seat in his hands, larry. yeah, yeah, yeah. but the question, whether it produces polarization is a different one, right? for instance, compared to voting behavior of representatives from competitive districts to non-competitive districts or from gerrymandered districts versus non-gerrymandered districts. it s happening in the senate.
sample more opinion. we talked about money tonight. that 501c4 should be disclosed and total disclosure. gerrymandering is an issue. closed primaries? what is evan bayh thinking of what would move the ball forward? i agree with all of things you just mentioned, michael, but at the end of the day, those sort of structural reforms will help but at the end of the day, the american people need to take the political process back and vote for, as the other guest just mentioned, practical problem solvers. some progress is better than none. we ve got a group called no labels trying to resolve that and that needs to gain some traction. because at the end of the day, as martin luther king said, we may have arrived in different ships but we re all in the same boat now. we are just electing people that don t behave that way. don t run for people who run
total internet transparency. you agree? i do. and as you said, scalia made a big point of saying that transparency is what s going to keep political money from being corrupt. thank you so much for being here. appreciate it. what are you thinking? keep the tweets coming at smerconish. what do we got? being a centrist is a dirty word today, destructive to democracy. you know what the new c word is? compromise. compromise is even worse than being a sent rhys acentrist and to bring it back into vogue. up ahead on our superb lope look, the role of gerrymandering. how has redrawing the electoral maps polarized the country further? per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brand. so you get more life per roll. bounty, the quicker picker upper