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One hates to say, “I told you so”

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But . . . those of us who advocate for making the redistricting process less partisan have talked for years about the problems with creating one-party districts. We predicted that the net effect would be to give undue influence to people on the ends of the bell curve.

Certainly the results of yesterday’s Senate primaries seem to bear that out.

UPDATE: Commenters have pointed out that I need to clarify. I am talking about the two Republican districts in this case. The McEachin-Lambert race had other issues, and the Barker-Galligan primary came in a district that is, believe me, not drawn to be a Democratic district. I’m not saying it can’t happen in Democratic districts, just that in the case of Sen. Lambert (the only one where the general theory would apply), there was a LOT of other stuff going on.

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  2. This post should be reworded to make it clear you are talking about Republican Senate primaries. I don’t think Donald or George won because of too much influence on the left end of the “bellcurve”.

  3. Indeed. Ben makes a valid point too.

    I do however, hope that people will see this and realize that it’s that much more important for control of the Senate to switch over this fall.

    Perhaps we may then even get your nonpartisan redistricting bill out of the GA and onto the desk of the Governor!? That would be wonderful.

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  5. Ben’s right here. Let me rephrase that. I do NOT think the McEachin win had anything to do with redistricting. And it really wouldn’t apply in George’s case because believe me, that was NOT drawn to be a Democratic district.

  6. “those of us who advocate for making the redistricting process less partisan have talked for years”

    I’m just curious how many “years” we’re talking about here. About six? I don’t recall too many complaints from your side of the aisle about how lines were drawn when y’all were drawing them.

    ;-)

  7. Todd–I was not a member of the General Assembly until 1999. However, when we DO take over (soon, I expect!), I plan to continue this effort. It’s just the right thing to do.

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