Texas re-districting. Result 16 Republicans and 5 Democrats.

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: senseamp
Didn't Dems win the TX statehouse? Time to do redistricting 2.0

Uh - make that 3.0. These districts had been gerrymandered long before the latest redistricting.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: senseamp
Didn't Dems win the TX statehouse? Time to do redistricting 2.0

NO, they took back 6 seats, but they are still in the minority. Which i guess this shows not all the districts are locked up as tight fr republicans as the democrats are saying.

 

[BlancoNino]

Since when is Gerrymandering unfair? It's completely legal and the democrats are just as guilty as the republicans for doing it...especially in Texas.

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: senseamp
Didn't Dems win the TX statehouse? Time to do redistricting 2.0

NO, they took back 6 seats, but they are still in the minority. Which i guess this shows not all the districts are locked up as tight fr republicans as the democrats are saying.

Just enough seats to oust Craddick from his position has Speaker of the House.

Thank god. Its to bad Perry is still Governor.

 

[ProfJohn]

Facts about Texas' political make up from Wikipedia

The Texan political climate is currently dominated by the Republican Party, which has strong majorities in the Texas Senate and House of Representatives. Every executive branch official elected statewide is Republican, as is every member of Texas's two courts of last resort; no Democrat has won a statewide election since 1994. The majority of the state's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives is Republican, as are both U.S. Senators.

Also note the 62-36% win in the Senate election, which matches the 61-38 victory for Bush over Kerry.

Now look at the total vote nation wide for congress in 2004, Republicans got around 50% of the vote, but got more than 50% of the seats.
That is because the math does not work out evenly nationwide. The Democrats got the number of seats national that matched their vote count 47%, the Republicans got all the rest.
You would expect the same thing to happen in any state.
Someone add up the total votes for each side.

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: techs
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006//pages/results/states/TX/index.html

I am looking for the actual vote totals of Democrat and Republicans state wide.
However, the mere fact that 76 percent of the seats went to Republicans shows how unfair the re-districting was. No way the Republicans got even 60 percent of the vote.

This is Texas man, of course the Reps got 60% of the vote, they always do and for the foreseeable future, always will. Are you from here, look around.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: FuzzyBee

Originally posted by: LegendKiller

The Republicans have skewed the voting tremendously by their Gerrymandering. It makes a mockery of this country that they have done this and that the courts have allowed it. The districts should be divided by population in a non-partisan manner, evenly and unbiased.

C'mon - both parties have been equally guilty over the years of doing the exact same thing across the country.

It seems like there would be some method of assimilating counties based on their population to roughly be equal, and then use county lines as the borders of the congressional districts. They could add/subtract counties as needed based on each decade's census. I guess that makes too much sense, though.

Because both parties are guilty of it, that makes it a void point?

It's still a bad practice and I still can't understand why we still use districts. I think it's a very poor system in this era.

 

[senseamp]

I am keeping my eye on TX. I think sooner or later it will go the way of VA. Not holding my breath, but optimistic. The new economy will attract more liberal professionals. Add to that the immigrant population, which GOP seems bent on fighting.