“Do Democrats Have a Shot at the House?”
Nate Silver analyzes the question in this post, which considers the impact of redistricting and independent expenditures.
Category Archives: redistricting
Wagner on Prison-Based Gerrymandering
Peter Wagner of the Prison Policy Initiative has this article in the Spring 2012 issue of the William Mitchell Law Review, entitled “Breaking the Census: Redistricting in an Era of Mass Incarceration.” He also has this blog post on the… Continue reading
New Hampshire Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to State House Redistricting
“Forty Years After Watergate; The Decades-Long Fight Against Political Money”
Pam Karlan in the Boston Review: “However, money is only one symptom of a deeper political pathology. We hear a flood of stories and arguments about campaign finance, but relatively little serious popular attention is paid to gerrymandering, restrictive registration… Continue reading
“Supreme Court upholds traditional candidate filing procedure”
STLToday: “The Missouri Supreme Court today ruled that candidates for state legislative seats in redistricting years don’t have to live in the newly-redrawn districts. In unanimous rulings, the high court said two St. Louis area candidates whose qualifications were… Continue reading
“California’s election reform flops”
Joe Mathews wants California to be more like Wisconsin in its politics. Really.
And anyone who thought top two and citizen redistricting would fundamentally transform California had expectations which were way too high.
“California’s New Electoral Reforms: How Did They Work?”
PPIC considers.
“Organizers of petition against Maryland’s redistricting say they have enough signatures”
The Washington Times reports.
Quote of the Day
“The purpose of increasing Hispanic political opportunities is not about sending more Hispanics to Congress. I don’t know why people think that way…It’s about increasing the voice of Latino voters. They can elect whoever they want.”
quoted in Texas Latinos … Continue reading
“Marc Veasey, Domingo Garcia headed for U.S. House District 33 runoff”
Dallas Morning News: “Unless Garcia can dramatically increase turnout among his Hispanic base, Veasey is poised to become the second black Democrat to represent North Texas in Congress and the first minority ever elected to Capitol Hill from Fort… Continue reading
Question of the Night
Now that Texas has held its primaries (or at least the first round) using the interim San Antonio-court created districts, will the Washington D.C. three-judge court issue its decision on the merits of the section 5 preclearance case?
“Hispanic boom may not shift Texas’ diversity in Congress”
Important AP report:“One is a black real estate agent and the other a white millionaire. For two new districts created to reflect Texas’ soaring Hispanic population, they might be the representatives elected to Congress. That’s not exactly what Hispanic… Continue reading
“Texas-style redistricting vexes voters, puts map boundaries in perpetual motion”
WaPo reports.
Pildes on Bullock on Redistricting
Redistricting: The Most Political Activity in America. By Charles S. Bullock III. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 234p. $79.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.
Richard H. Pildes (2012).
Perspectives on Politics,