GOP risks losing redistricting war if they ignore state races, group warns

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(Politico) This year’s frantic mid-decade redistricting fight may be the new normal — and Republicans need to invest more into legislative races lest they fall behind on this new “permanent arms race,” argues a new memo from the party’s state-focused campaign arm shared first with POLITICO.

“The legislative level truly holds the key to the federal level,” Edith Jorge-Tuñón, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, said in an interview.

In the Friday memo — which is being shared with GOP donors — Jorge-Tuñón repeatedly hits Democrats for gerrymandering blue states, arguing that they will continue to stretch their margins as much as possible. Republicans, too, have drawn increasingly favorable maps — and fired the first shot in this year’s battle with Texas — shrinking the number of swing House seats that ultimately determine control of the chamber.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/permanent-arms-race-redistricting-stay-110000015.html

[CrispyQ]

1. There may be a silver lining in the redistricting battle.

Back when Jim Jordan's district looked like a duck, I read an article that stated that gerrymandering can backfire when a district suddenly changes demographics or disposition. Demographics is slower, but disposition can happen in a matter of months. The House is especially vulnerable cuz people are more willing to vote for the other party or not vote at all, since rep terms are only two years.

People's disposition is changing. Wait till Christmas when people see prices on things they haven't been looking at. A $20 watercolor paint set I was looking at jumped up $7 since I last looked a few weeks ago. ~gasp!