Democrat Politicians Flee Texas

Trying to prevent their seats being gerrymandered? Or the Texas congressional delegation to Congress.

Under the "You Can't Make This Shtuff Up" category, the Democrats from Texas, to avoid a redistricting vote, have chosen to seek safe haven in Illinois, perhaps the poster child of gerrymandered districts to arrive at a predetermined outcome . . .

Is ironic the state they chose. Illinois is quite gerrymandered. SW Illinois wants to secede and become part of Missouri or Iowa.

Once again, the Trump era has given balls to Republicans who are learning how to play the Democrat game.

An example of Democrat gerrymandering. Embarrassing!

Hope it bites them in the butt during the midterms and these "safe seats" turn purple.

The truth about gerrymandering? The only time either party has a problem with it is when they aren't the party drawing the lines. The current effort in Texas actually eliminates much of the current gerrymandering that was undertaken to ensure that Democrats didn't have to compete for the seats. The current Texas map is filled with numerous "coalition districts", which is code for an intentionally gerrymandered district to ensure that a specific racial or ethnic group, or a combination of them, hold a majority of the eligible voters in that district. The map under consideration right now eliminates "coalition districts", and that's the problem that Democrats have with the effort.

Personally I would love 90/10 congressional districts. I hate 51/49 districts where 49% of people don't have representation.

These are simply ridiculous. Congressional districts should at least honor county boundaries.

Five million Republican voters live in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont, not a single one gets a congressional representative.

And these are high tax states. Talk about taxation without representation

Rural and urban areas have different interests, different needs. Placing all of Park and all of Jefferson County together in one district is going to be misrepresentative of the needs of Park, and rural Jefferson, County because the Denver Metro population centers that lie in Jefferson County are going to silence the voice of Park, and rural Jefferson, County. And while I would generally agree with you that districting should mostly honor county lines, I also see the benefit of parsing out rural Jefferson County from Urban Jefferson County because a single representative can't properly represent the interests of both segments of the county's population due to their completely divergent character.