The Harley Rider (Page 2): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/the-great-gerrymander-of-2012.html?pagewanted=all&

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/the-great-gerrymander-of-2012.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Old_Gringo wrote:

Again, you are right Tom, I have no answers.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-18/republicans-foil-what-most-u-s-wants-with-gerrymandering.html

Old_Gringo wrote:

Again, you are right Tom, I have no answers.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/who-gerrymanders-more-democrats-or-republicans

Old_Gringo wrote:

Again, you are right Tom, I have no answers.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

Old_Gringo wrote:

Tom, for your information, the Democrats do double, if not triple, the amount of gerrymandering than do the Republicans.

I just got back from Google and even when I used the words "have Democrats ever taken part in gerrymandering?" all I got was stuff about the 2012 gerrymandering. It seems that the media surely thinks that year was the only case of such. They have taken part but you can't find out from the media about that. To read them the only time gerrymandering ever happened was in 2012.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

I posted info that Illinois was gerrymandered by Democrats

oldroy wrote:

I just got back from Google and even when I used the words "have Democrats ever taken part in gerrymandering?" all I got was stuff about the 2012 gerrymandering. It seems that the media surely thinks that year was the only case of such. They have taken part but you can't find out from the media about that. To read them the only time gerrymandering ever happened was in 2012.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

fom wrote:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/who-gerrymanders-more-democrats-or-republicans

Drum did a great job of talking about the redistricting of 2010 but haven't those things been going on every 10 years from the beginning of our system? I found on Google that the media just can't seem to realize that there have been one of these things every 10 years and all they talk about is that one time.

Maybe Mother Jones isn't the only publication around that talks about gerrymandering but take a try at learning something on Google.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

I will try it.

oldroy wrote:

Drum did a great job of talking about the redistricting of 2010 but haven't those things been going on every 10 years from the beginning of our system? I found on Google that the media just can't seem to realize that there have been one of these things every 10 years and all they talk about is that one time.

Maybe Mother Jones isn't the only publication around that talks about gerrymandering but take a try at learning something on Google.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

fom wrote:

I will try it.

I tried and tried to get that Google search engine to tell me something other than about 2012 but they wouldn't do it no matter what I used as a prompt.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

crumb and doggone it.

oldroy wrote:

I tried and tried to get that Google search engine to tell me something other than about 2012 but they wouldn't do it no matter what I used as a prompt.

Pogo Loc: New Mexico via Carolinas

Name those "we all admired."

fom wrote:

I have seen this joke before and it is pretty silly. Republicans are getting a bad rap these days.Too many in the party went to the extreme right. The ones who were sensible and moderate got called RINOs. Democrats hope the Tea party keeps disintegrating the Republican party.Sad shame. There used to be outstanding Republicans we all admired.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Dwight Eisenhower. Senator Mark Hatfield Ronald Reagon

Pogo wrote:

Name those "we all admired."

3jack

fom wrote:

keep up the good work

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

fom wrote:

Dwight Eisenhower. Senator Mark Hatfield Ronald Reagon

...Mark O. Hatfield, a liberal Republican who challenged his party's positions on the Vietnam War and on a balanced-budget amendment to the ...

He was a liberal, not a real Republican.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

fom wrote:

I posted info that Illinois was gerrymandered by Democrats

And which year was that? 2012 seems to be what I caught.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

fom wrote:

crumb and doggone it.

What did you get from Google using crumb and doggone it as prompts. I am sure they came up with something.

I just tried crumb and doggone it and got page after page from them. Sometimes one has to wonder about any search engine as they try so hard to outdo all the others.