Democrats are tied or behind in six governors' races in states that face redistricting.
It is not quite as bad in the Senate, where redistricting does not apply.
But with two-thirds of plans finalised, the current redistricting process looks like an incumbent-protection racket.
Redistricting after the 2000 Census added another 350 Rezmar apartments to the area he represented.
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Population shifts and redistricting lowered the percentage of whites from 86 percent to 78 percent.
His reason is that redistricting was needed and electronic voter cards took time to distribute.
His reason: Redistricting had to take place and electronic voter cards took time to distribute.
One of those charges was related to DeLay's involvement in the Texas redistricting battles in 2003.
"The dirty little secret is that redistricting only explains part of polarization, " Wasserman said.
Redistricting following the 2010 census put the two congressmen in the same and the primary.
Attempts to make the redistricting rules fairer have been tried several times, and have always failed.
Throw in congressional redistricting, which has made it more difficult for moderates to run and win.
And in Republican Arizona voters have just decided to send redistricting matters to an independent commission.
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Based on current estimates, 18 states will soon begin redistricting, and of those, 15 have governors' races.
Iowa was first in 1980, making redistricting largely apolitical, although the legislature must still approve all maps.
The majority thought, however, that sampling might be used for state redistricting and for disbursements of federal aid.
This year, he notes, several relative moderates pitted by redistricting in primaries against tea-party types managed to survive.
Most Americans hear the words reapportionment and redistricting and immediately stop paying attention.
They seemed less hostile to another: that a redistricting plan might be unconstitutional if its sole justification was partisanship.
Meanwhile, the state with the strongest Democratic trifecta, California, passed propositions taking control of redistricting away from the legislature.
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The Texas case involves the infamous Tom DeLay redistricting and whether it's unconstitutional or illegal under the Voting Rights Act.
They passed one initiative that extends the remit of an independent redistricting commission, and rejected another that would have abolished it.
In most states redistricting is now in the hands of state legislators.
"This is setting the table on the elections for the next decade, " says Michael McDonald, a redistricting expert with George Mason University.
Many liberals ascribe it to the redistricting that followed the 2010 Census.
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Thanks to redistricting, though, he hasn't faced a competitive election in years.
On account of redistricting disputes, the Lone Star State's primary has wandered through the calendar and landed on the Tuesday after Memorial Day.
Republicans involved in redistricting this time around say they cannot be too aggressive if their handiwork is to have any hope of surviving.
In Colorado, the Democrats somewhat surprisingly won control of the state Senate, earning them a say in redistricting in a very fast-growing state.
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For the first time since the voting rights law was passed, a Democratic administration will be running the Justice Department during a redistricting year.
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