Schwarzenegger: Congress Is Less Popular Than Hemorrhoids, Herpes

[Eaglewings]

“Gerrymandering has created an absurd reality where politicians now pick their voters, instead of the voters picking their politicians,” the Republican and “Terminator” star says in a video released Tuesday on media startup ATTN.

“You thought every two years in November, you’re going to the polls to pick your representatives, right? Wrong!” Schwarzenegger says to the camera.

Schwarzenegger rips gerrymandering: Congress 'couldn't beat herpes in the polls'

 

[Stratford57]

Not all of them, there are quite a few smart and decent Republicans there though.

 

[Rustic]

Career politicians could not exist without gerrymandering on both sides - the solution... single term limits

 

[Fenton Lum]

Career politicians could not exist without gerrymandering on both sides - the solution... single term limits

Yeah, and they'll propose and pass that won't they. And the "job creator" class and finance capitalists will allow them to.

 

[Eaglewings]

Career politicians could not exist without gerrymandering on both sides - the solution... single term limits

Yeah, and they'll propose and pass that won't they. And the "job creator" class and finance capitalists will allow them to.

Do you mean won't allow them to?

 

[Eaglewings]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/the-great-gerrymander-of-2012.html?pagewanted=all

In North Carolina, where the two-party House vote was 51 percent Democratic, 49 percent Republican, the average simulated delegation was seven Democrats and six Republicans. The actual outcome? Four Democrats, nine Republicans — a split that occurred in less than 1 percent of simulations. If districts were drawn fairly, this lopsided discrepancy would hardly ever occur.

Confounding conventional wisdom, partisan redistricting is not symmetrical between the political parties. By my seat-discrepancy criterion, 10 states are out of whack: the five I have mentioned, plus Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Illinois and Texas. Arizona was redistricted by an independent commission, Texas was a combination of Republican and federal court efforts, and Illinois was controlled by Democrats. Republicans designed the other seven maps. Both sides may do it, but one side does it more often.