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Originally Posted by Riot
The GOP is so unhappy with the foolish TeaPublicans, the GOP themselves are redistricting many of them out at the state level (Walsh IL, West FL, for example)
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karl rove is a realist. they lost delaware and nevada senate seats that by all rights should have gone republican in 2010.
no one should be surprised to see redistricting used to build a governable majority.
that usually means democrats build the maximum safe districts for democrats in states where they control the process and ditto for republicans.
they'll cut out a few outliers but it's mainly built to protect incumbents.
which is why (i'm talking to you danny) it's a waste of time to concentrate on term limits as a solution.
does it really matter when the chief of staff for a (republican) (democratic) congressman succeeds them due to term limits?
stop letting elected officials draw their own districts and you'll have a lot fewer safe incumbents.