The once-in-a-decade redistricting cycle is in full swing, and wilder than ever. The maps that emerge in the coming months will shape the balance of power in Washington for years to come.
gains in the state. barack obama won the state yes but state is generally speaking but republican state, including two wins for donald trump. already we have seen some impact from this map drawing. gk butterfield who will is a democratic member of congress said he s not running again because hi district went from safely democratic to a toss up. wo we ll see what other decisions get made there. two states to look at. two big ones. one is florida. this is state that republicans control all the mechanisms of redistricting. we expect them to sure up the gains they made in south florida in the 2020 election. make those districts a little more solid. maybe go after seat like charlie crist. he s running for governor in the 13th district. val demmings is run for the senate. then there s california. california is the largest delegation in the country.
Lancaster Countyâs legislators have said that election integrity is a top priority because their voters express concern over the election process.
Election integrity begins with ending partisan gerrymandering and instituting more clear-cut and enforceable criteria on how the redistricting maps are drawn.
Fair Districts PA volunteer Tim Brixius made this point: âCurrent discussions about election reform in the House State Government Committee should not put redistricting reform on the back burner. Accountability and transparency in redistricting is fundamental to fair elections in the commonwealth.â
Voters in Pennsylvania have asked for redistricting reform for 30 years. State Sen. David Argall, R-Berks and Schuylkill, will tell you he introduced redistricting reform in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan talked about what a scourge it was to good governance. In Pennsylvania, reform efforts began five years ago with the request to create a citizens commission to o
conquer strategy. pitting one group of americans against another. making white americans think that these hispanic voters are coming in and somehow diminishing their votesors egalitarianism in our country. it s this divide and conquer strategy that has pushed our politics into this horrible state we re in. the truth is that the solution to all of this is to reform our immigration laws. then it doesn t really matter whether you put a citizenship question on the censor not. but clearly a lot of people, the president included, prefer the politics of immigration over the solutions for immigration because if plays well come campaign season. well, and i think we d, we ve got to figure out how to take the politics out of map drawing. i don t know how it is state by state. the supreme court allowed us to put the politics into map drawing. the democrats are in a odd
let s not forget, syria s an artificial creation of the british/french deal back in the 1990s, right after world war i to create a piece of real estate that the french would have while the british took control most of the middle east. and that is coming unstuck. look at the composition, the religious composition of the place. and all of these differences are getting aggravated. see, mr. prime minister, we blame the british for all the map drawing. in the middle east. by the way, in the far east, though, they ll blame the british and even occasionally here. but, no, look the problem is now how you create stability when the feelings of hatred will be so deep and when the sectarianism is so acute. but i agree. look, the only way out of this is to get some form of agreed process of change. and the problem that you have, and this is the difficulty in a