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Sunday, April 16, 2017

WE HAVE WORK TO DO AT THE LOCAL, STATE & FEDERAL LEVELS!

Only 16.5% of CONGRESSIONAL districts are even marginally competitive. 
Incumbents have drawn safe districts for themselves for the last 20 years.
Politicians tasked in most states with crafting congressional lines once every decade have prioritized protecting themselves over creating competitive districts. The 2001 and 2011 redistricting processes were hugely driven by a mission to draw incumbent-friendly maps. Only in a handful of states -- such as Iowa, which uses a nonpartisan entity to draw its congressional districts -- do you see any sort of real competition. 
The solution? Non-partisan redistricting in all 50 states designed to draw compact and sensible districts with no concern for incumbents' wishes and wants.



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