Re: [PEN-L] Next US prez appointing 3+ Supremes?

[Devine, James]

_incumbent_ Dems were involved in making sure that they got safe seats, so that the total number of truly contested seats shrank. They didn't care much about the non-incumbents. The rise of permanent incumbency seems related to the self-serving motives of incumbents, not the motives of Dems or GOPsters. 

This is very different from the deLay garbage in Texas, which aimed at partisan conquest.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine



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> I don't quite get your point -- is your thought that
> Dems collaborate in redistrictring schemes that cut
> them out of seats and power? I know Walter Karp used
> to say that sort of thing -- then about Southern
> Republicans -- but he proved to be wrong about them.
> And I don't think that Democrats are willing
> participants in their won executions either.
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> --- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > It's not just "Republican gerrymandering." The
> > incumbent Dems were involved, too.
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> > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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