Any hope for some future redistricting?

[theHandpuppet]

I was reading the Cincy Enquirer online yesterday where it was noted that their homegrown lunatic, Ken Blackwell, leads Strickland in SW Ohio whilst Strickland is predictably leading in SE Ohio. I'm predicting that District 2's four, rural Appalachian counties to the east (Brown, Adams, Scioto and Pike) will once again go blue but Hamilton County and its satellite counties to the west will go heavily red, voting for both Blackwell in a losing cause and returning Jean Schmidt to office. Such a result would mean that once again the vote of the Appalachian counties in D2 will be for naught and they will essentially be without representation. I'm sick of this shit!!!

Does anyone here think there's a possibility of some redistricting once Strickland takes office? I was born and raised in Portsmouth and it's about damned time those folks didn't have to live and die at the whim of whatever Cincinnati wants. Get us Appalchian folks the fuck out of D2 and give us our voice back!!

[geiger]

1. I am really glad you brought this up

because I heard Raga talking about this the other night (when I purposely crashed an R event). If Dems aren't thinking about it, the R's sure r. They are in complete and utter panic.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Of course they are

And it's time we Dems did some redrawing of the map. The Repukes have already carved up D1 and D2 in such a way that gives the GOP an insurmountable hold on those districts. We need to talk REDISTRICTING, NOW!

[Kolesar]

3. Columbus, Ohio should have its own district

So should Akron. Columbus is the big problem, because the gop gerrymandered the map so that Columbus' Democratic voters would be in majority-gop districts.

Tom Delay did a redistricting of Texas between the census periods. I don't know if Ohio law "allows" early redistricting. We need to win 2/3 of the Governor, Secretary of State, and Auditor to have a majority on the redistricting board. There are two other seats that are one Democrat and one Republican from the legislature.

I think it would be difficult to redistrict Latourette, R-14 out of existence.

The last poll Wulsin put up was that she was within the margin of error with Schmidt in the 2nd district. I gave her $100 on that news.