Democrat Suicide Watch: Gerrymandering Is Bad When We're Not in Power

Start the 24-hour monitoring again, folks, as the MSM tries to talk the Democrats into political suicide yet again:

The increased attention to the issue is in part due to the effectiveness of efforts in 2003 in Texas, where Republicans, with the backing of the White House, forced through a midterm redistricting that effectively cost four Texas Democrats their seats. The complaints are also spurred by the way computers and the enormous amount of available voting data have turned redistricting into a surgically precise procedure and opened up to anyone with a laptop what was once dominated by legislative tacticians with decades of knowledge.

Ahh, I love it when the Times waxes nostalgic for the "legislative tacticians" of the past who gave us an entire generation of Democratic domination of Congress. Their babushka is showing.

Gerrymandering, perfected by Democrats for that generation when the Times and the rest of the MSM thought it was a nuisance at most, squeezes as many voters liable to vote for one party or the other into as few districts as possible, thus creating "safe" seats.

This does not only benefit the majority party, by the way. Every Congressman wants to run unopposed.

What typically happens is that the minority party loses a couple of seats in order to make the rest safer.

Thus, gerrymandering sets an unnatural minimum number of seats for the least popular party. When a party is as nationally toxic to the electorate as today's Democrats, they're overrepresented in the legislature.

But, as usual, the MSM will push for a "reform" they think will benefit their favored politicos in the short-term, not realizing that the populist appeal of the GOP is why their side is losing and such "reforms" will only accelerate the GOP ascension.

This is why MSM support for the Democrats is a net liability today.