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A gerrymandered congressional district, the 11th CD of CA, drawn to favor Republican Richard Pombo.While the Danville area is a traditional Republican stronghold, Morgan Hill is not, and it was added to obtain the proper population numbers for the 11th after Livermore was assigned to the 10th at the behest of the incumbent Democrat, since it contains the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
The old gerrymandering had a very bad stench and is still practiced in many states including Texas, columnist George Skelton writes. ... California lost one. The old gerrymandering was an ugly ...
The California Citizens Redistricting Commission certified final district maps on August 15, 2011, and they took effect with the 2012 election. [14] The new districts are described as more "purple" than "red" or "blue" - that is, more mixed in electoral composition compared to the mostly "safe" districts of the previous decade, where incumbents ...
Bi-partisan incumbent gerrymandering produced California's 38th congressional district, home to Grace Napolitano, a Democrat, who ran unopposed in 2004. This district was redrawn by California's non-partisan commission after the 2010 census.
This was substantiated, for example, in California, where the average percentage of competitive districts went from 5.6% in the decade preceding the 2010 introduction of an independent commission ...
(The Center Square) - Almost one month after Election Day, one key Congressional race in California remains neck-and neck as the same pair of opponents race to a neck-and-neck finish. Democrat ...
Americans’ reckoning with their own democracy extends beyond the looming presidential election to a much more local level.
In late August, supporters of Prop. 11 filed a complaint with the Fair Political Practices Commission because the California Correctional Peace Officers Association—a group that opposes Prop. 11—gave contributions totaling $577,000 to the Leadership California committee, which is a campaign committee associated with state senate leader Don ...