Politics: Redistricting

There is a huge post that is long overdue for this blog that I was hoping to have done at some time this month, meaning today, but this isn’t happening. I haven’t done my post on the results of the presidential election from a year ago now that I feel that I have to do still. I also could have blogged instead about the results of the 2021 gubernatorial races with a few others in there as well that happened this year which I think is too soon to blog about. I can promise that one of those posts will appear as next month’s post. I don’t know if that will appear later in the month to accommodate my Survivor blog which is usually delayed to Thursdays during Advent but might not be for reasons that I’ll talk about in that blog. But it will appear on a Thursday as I know that one will be free.

Now since I have to do a brief blog post, I might as well cover the topic of redistricting, a once in a decade event that covers multiple areas of the US electorate. I might as well cover it now since if I don’t cover it soon, I’ll have to wait until it is more time appropriate again.

Due to the census, there are shifts in population and this affects many things. In this blog post, I will just be covering its role in the US House election. It is already known to affect the number of seats some states will have in Congress and some are going up and some are going down. The overall number of Congresspeople remains unchanged as always.

We won’t know the full affects of this change until later. And we always have to worry about the affects of gerrymandering. We do not know what all will change with it. And I wish that I could only blame the Republicans for gerrymandering, but, sadly, both sides do this and that’s quite a shame since neither party should and they should be equal districts. 

A lot more than just redistricting will be affecting the future when we get to the 2022 House races, but that is a different post. We have the sedition caucus, Republicans who voted in favor of impeachment, people of both parties who will have to face each other in primaries, all of the new seats, all of the seats going away, and tons of other things to look for as well. Plus, it is not the House that sorts out the new districts, but the state legislatures and whatever party could be in control of them. That’s why we want the best people in control all the time and especially when it is redistricting time. That’s all folks.