All gerrymandering, all the time
With eruptions in Texas and California, some media hits
Greetings from Cape Cod! Doing radio and TV today, which seems to work from here. Earlier this week (Monday) I was on the PBS News Hour (starts at the 33:40 mark).
Today, more on gerrymandering. Scheduled tentatively, all times Eastern:
BBC World Service radio, around 3:20pm and 4:20pm. [recording]
The Day on PBS America (and Deutsche Welle TV), 4:40pm [episode] [interview[
BBC News - The Context USA, at 6:30pm
What I’ll talk about:
The Electoral Innovation Lab, which is building a science of voter power, has analytics showing that the Texas redistricting plan is the most extreme gerrymander in 50 years. Since 1972, the first year that districts had to be of equal population (“one person, one vote”), no plan has been as extreme as what’s under consideration by Texas Republicans.
However, California’s counterproposal will be just as extreme in the other direction, favoring Democrats. We’re working on a report on these record-setting offenses, and will release it soon.
After all that, back to this soon I hope…
I noticed that Nate Silver had a different take on the probable range of district representative changes due to the new Texas maps (assuming they withstand court challenges). What is your take on the differences between your analysis and his?