Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

my congressman is "for life" since he is Carl Levin's brother- but next district over is a guy named Gary Peters (D). Peters is a moron who beat a very smart conservative R in 08 (Joe Knollenberg) because Rs were bad and needed voting out.

so, just IQ wise we took a step down. but now it seems like Peters might well lose to a guy with a long polish name who seems perhaps dumber than Peters and is a TP guy to boot.

so we took a step down with peters and we may step down even lower.

kumbayah

Congressional districting blows for everyone involved except the incumbents. In my world, this is how it would work: Every time there's redistricting, everyone can submit a redistricting plan for a given state. The one that's picked meets these mathematical criteria: The population of every district in the state is no more than 1% more than the population of any other district in the state, and the total length of the borders of the districts are the shortest of any plan submitted.