by goobster

Once again the Republicans are rapacious, self serving, duplicitous evil bastards, and the Democrats are feckless, paste-eating, card-carrying members of the Ministry of Silly Walks.

Even when the Republicans publish their plan for jacking the electoral process in a national newspaper the Democrats still fail to show up to the fight. Or even know where the fight is. Or who is winning.

The political “smart set” in the media and the capital, however, has long resisted the idea that gerrymandering matters. They see it as part of the game. They look for a counterintuitive way to explain it, like the “Big Sort” theory that like-minded people choose to live around like-minded people. The Republicans knew better–they knew that drawing the lines meant making the rules. They knew that staring down a demographic barrel, they had to change the rules if they wanted to win. And the amount of energy and money the brightest minds in the party spent on this in 2010 and then again drawing the lines in 2011 should help put the “Big Sort” theory to bed. We have been sorted.