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Lone_Star_Dem

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6. This is very true.
Fri Dec 28, 2012, 01:47 AM
Dec 2012

I've been saying for quite some time gerrymandering has been abused to the point it now poses a dangerous to our country.

I know, I know, neither side want's to eliminate gerrymandering. When you get the lucky draw to be the party in power after a census, the last thing you want to do is lose that delicious political edge. Well, look where that's gotten our country. We now have one party which has padded their chances to the point they can no longer govern. They're being held hostage by the extremest in their party who have absolutely no reason to compromise. The entire nation is suffering as a consequence. That's not even mentioning the people who were gerrymandered out of fair representation. Which no one really seems to care about.

Something needs to be done about gerrymandering. It's no longer a viable political tool as it's always been viewed as in the past.

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