In the memo noting its $100 million goal, the Committee on States emphasizes the importance of ramping up its effort before the next round of redistricting. Republicans made huge gains at the state level in the years before the 2010 redistricting fights and subsequently redrew congressional districts to make the political playing field more favorable to GOP candidates. That helps explain how, in 2012, Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania for the US House of Representatives together received 83,000 more votes than Republican candidates, yet the states delegation ended up with 13 Republicans and five Democrats. In Michigan that year, Democratic congressional candidates earned 240,000 more votes than Republicans, but the states congressional delegation had nine GOPers and five Democrats. It is imperative, one Committee on States memo reads, to increase state political and civic engagement capacity between now and the next biennium redistricting process if we truly hope to change our national political landscape. motherjones/politics/2014/11/committee-on-states-democracy-alliance-redistricting-2020
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:07:30 +0000
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