I see many questions asking why congress hasn't done this or that and I have to shake my head, HOW can you be having a political debate and not understand how politics works? The house is a democratic majority nad also votes by simple majority, the senate is a very slight democratic majority but requires 60 votes to pass, the we have a far right administration that has the power of veto over legislation, to overturn this requires a two-thirds majority in each house, so the reality is unless there is broad popular support amongst both groups nothing is going through accept the easy stuff, for everyone who is unhappy about this I say you need to use your voting power to support candidates who will help end gerrymandering, when the folks in office control how the voting district is divided we're screwed, so we need to look for solutions that are honest Here's a couple of ideas
http://www.fairvote.org/reports/1993/amy.html
http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=222993
2007-03-15
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