Gerrymandering is a disgrace. Both sides are 100 perceng guilty. I wish the would pass laws against it. They totally took our congressional district and split it five ways under 5 different districts to ensure our city does not have any representation. It is a travesty and should be stopped!! We will NEVER get rid of John Boehner because he has made his district so gerrymandered that he won by 99 percent of the vote in 2012. Even a conservative could not win because he is so entrenched.
I’d be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t support Republican/Conservative gerrymandering. I want to see as few Democrats as possible holding office. Drawing the districts that would give either party a shot in an area that could be made safely GOP is committing political suicide. Why ? Because right now, thanks to the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department is legally empowered to force the drawing of Democrat districts at the expense of Republican voters (the sole exception is 3 seats in FL, of which the Dems won one in November, these being Hispanic Cuban districts). In order to ensure fairness to our side, we have no choice but to draw favorable lines to our guys.