Because they don’t actually have a majority of people in the country agreeing with their positions. It’s why Jim Jordan’s district looks they way it does, and why Dan Crenshaw’s district looks the way it does too.
There’s a big fight in Ohio right now to get fairly drawn maps drawn up. The map the GOP keeps submitting keeps getting rejected because it is once again gerrymandered as hell. Why? Because if they drew a fair map a number of the people on the committee would lose their seat after the next election.
Certainly in the UK the responsibility to define constituency boundaries was handed over ages ago to an independent body. Admittedly there are sometimes problems for politicians to accept their decisions, but by and large it remains independent of politics. I suppose both main parties realised that if they agreed to its formation then both would be protected against rank opportunism by the other party. This seems so obviously the thing to do here that I’m at a a complete loss why you haven’t made this an apolitical process in the USA before now – and why you still fight against it to this day.
Here’s the thing, it’s supposed to be. The reason the maps keep getting rejected here in Ohio is because the maps are not meeting the criteria the voters voted for with regards to the map changes. This is the GOP being willfully obstinate and wasting time and tax payer money because they’re pissed they’d lose seats. The maps are supposed to be drawn by population and the republicans keep fucking that up because by the numbers there would be more (typically leaning) dem seats then pub seats if they drew the maps that way.
Because they don’t actually have a majority of people in the country agreeing with their positions. It’s why Jim Jordan’s district looks they way it does, and why Dan Crenshaw’s district looks the way it does too.
There’s a big fight in Ohio right now to get fairly drawn maps drawn up. The map the GOP keeps submitting keeps getting rejected because it is once again gerrymandered as hell. Why? Because if they drew a fair map a number of the people on the committee would lose their seat after the next election.
Certainly in the UK the responsibility to define constituency boundaries was handed over ages ago to an independent body. Admittedly there are sometimes problems for politicians to accept their decisions, but by and large it remains independent of politics. I suppose both main parties realised that if they agreed to its formation then both would be protected against rank opportunism by the other party. This seems so obviously the thing to do here that I’m at a a complete loss why you haven’t made this an apolitical process in the USA before now – and why you still fight against it to this day.
Here’s the thing, it’s supposed to be. The reason the maps keep getting rejected here in Ohio is because the maps are not meeting the criteria the voters voted for with regards to the map changes. This is the GOP being willfully obstinate and wasting time and tax payer money because they’re pissed they’d lose seats. The maps are supposed to be drawn by population and the republicans keep fucking that up because by the numbers there would be more (typically leaning) dem seats then pub seats if they drew the maps that way.