Word: redrawn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Democrats "don't have a whole lot of running room this time," says California Representative Ellen Tauscher, the national vice chair of the Democratic Leadership Council. Congressional redistricting, which is mandated every decade in accordance with the new Census count, is still under way, but so far the redrawn lines appear to favor most House incumbents. No more than two dozen of the 435 House races may really be up for grabs, and many of them are in Republican-friendly areas in the South and Midwest. DeLay predicts the G.O.P. will defy history and actually increase its majority in November...
...about the governor's race. They were thinking about keeping their own jobs and about the state congressional delegation. Pennsylvania lost two congressional seats in the 2000 census, going from 21 to 19. The current delegation has eleven Republicans and ten Democrats. Legislators' final calculations predicted voters in the redrawn districts would send fourteen Republicans and five Democrats to Washington in 2003. How did they arrive at these figures? Using standard redistricting tools: they redrew the districts to make sure Republican incumbents had solid Republican majorities in their new areas, and in two cases, put two Democratic incumbents...
...Only nine states have so far redrawn the congressional lines; the rest are still debating boundaries. The drawing phase is critical; the way state assemblies apportion the new maps could determine the makeup of the U.S. House of Representatives for the coming decade. That?s because in most states, the party that controls the legislature and governor?s seat also controls the map - and can draw the lines in ways that favor its candidates. "The stakes are very, very high," says one Democratic Party official...
...them ever leave is by retiring or dying. So if the congressional lines for a district are drawn in a way that concentrates more voters from one party, the incumbent from that party is practically guaranteed his seat for at least 10 years, or until the lines are redrawn after the next census...
...have been a bone of contention for Democrats and Republicans ever since 1990. The apportionment of House seats and electoral-college votes must by law be determined only by person-by-person counts, or so the Supreme Court has ruled. But redistricting - how and where congressional-district boundaries are redrawn every decade so that a state's representatives have equal numbers of constituents - can be determined using statistical adjustments...