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re: un-gerrymandering

Hopefully 2010 will see a 1994-like tidal wave here in NC so that we can take the legislature in order to do just that - I personally am far more concerned about that than unseating Kissell and Shuler, given the long-term implications, esp. if we end up with another seat...

Unfortunately, no matter how we carve this state up, I’m not sure any of the districts, assuming they look anything like they do now, will become significantly more favorable to Republicans.

I don't know what happened to the state, it was going so great in '94, capturing the House there, only to lose it by '98. The Senate has been way too rodent-heavy, and that was also an impediment to getting control of redistricting (along with the fact that it has been 21 years since you guys last elected a GOP Governor). But clearly at the Congressional level, as with the State Senate, it's got too many Democrats in districts that should be GOP. If we got control there, there's no reason we couldn't squeeze a 10R-3D majority out of it (leaving the Justice Dept. mandated 1st and 12th, and the 4th for the moonbat Chapel Hill/Research Triangle for the rodents).

Shuler didn't win his seat due to gerrymandering, but because of his GOP predecessor (that district is really just acknowledging a GOP lean), but the Hayes/Kissell seat WAS designed to elect a rodent, it just took 6 years for it to finally happen. I was astonished to see Hayes making the serious mistake for a Republican of moving leftward, voting (according to the ACU) in the 90s% or high 80s (with only one fluke 76 in his second year in 2000), up until 2006, but dropped to an astonishing 48% Conservative by '08, which officially made him a liberal Republican. I'd have likely left that office blank in '08 seeing the direction he was going. Conservatives aren't stupid, they're not going to tolerate (nor should) their members moving leftward. 10 years in and Hayes jumped the shark.