What Hath Tom Wrought?
There's an interesting post over at Taegan Goddard. Seems like the SCOTUS ruling upholding most of the DeLaymander in Texas may backfire on the GOP.
Now that state legislatures have the green light to redistrict whenever the spirit moves, the Dems, who are in control in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, etc. have the opportunity to significantly boost their states' Congressional delegations.
Seems to me this also means that state legislative battles may become almost as important as actual Congressional elections in determining the makeup of the House.
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I believe we will look back 20 years from now and damn the day the SCOTUS ruled the way they did on this case. The political havoc, year in and year out, this is going to cause is simply going to become tiresome in the future.
Of course there are a number of things the GOP has done over the past 5 years, that in time, will come back to bite them in ass. It may actually bite them so hard, that Karl Rove may be cursed by the GOP in the future, for setting up such a partisian way of governance. Time will tell...
Beware of the fanatics, they never see gray.
June 30, 2006 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink