Map redrawing angers US Democrats - Democratic Underground

lovuian

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Tue Oct-12-04 11:49 PM
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Map redrawing angers US Democrats

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=5629a4a5612bc327&cat=3a8a80d6f705f8cc

Map redrawing angers US Democrats

Some are standing down rather than running in a new district
The increasingly widespread - and perfectly legal - practice of gerrymandering is having a serious and lasting effect on American democracy, as the BBC's James Silver reports from Texas.
The sight of cowboys being abruptly unseated by the bucking broncos at the rodeo in Mesquite, Texas, must surely strike a chord with many of the state's Democratic Congressmen.

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This is destroying democracy!!!

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Wed Oct-13-04 05:43 AM
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1. Your link

goes to a Monte Python article ( at least now it does )
This is also not breaking news, since all this happened last year.

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