The gerrymander that ate America
Slate
by Juliet Eilperin
04/17/06
"It's hard to find a defender of the current process: It's engineered to favor not only incumbents, but also typically the most ideological ones who derive their power from pandering to party extremists. House incumbents seeking re-election now have a 98 percent chance of winning, up from the lower 90s in the 1990s. It's a system in which party operatives manipulate sophisticated computer software to maximum effect, shuffling voters across district boundaries to guarantee their candidates have the best chance of winning election every two years...
http://www.slate.com/id/2140054/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Juliet Eilperin
04/17/06
"It's hard to find a defender of the current process: It's engineered to favor not only incumbents, but also typically the most ideological ones who derive their power from pandering to party extremists. House incumbents seeking re-election now have a 98 percent chance of winning, up from the lower 90s in the 1990s. It's a system in which party operatives manipulate sophisticated computer software to maximum effect, shuffling voters across district boundaries to guarantee their candidates have the best chance of winning election every two years...
http://www.slate.com/id/2140054/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 18. Apr, 15:39
