[EL] Check out Brewer, other GOP officials critical of redistricting map

[Nicholas Stephanopoulos]

NCSL has information on which states use commissions for which elections,
Bruce Cain and John Hanley calculated the partisan bias of state legislative
plans in the last cycle, and I used my own bias data for congressional
plans. For an article finding that commissions tend to produce more
competitive plans than legislatures, see Jamie L. Carson & Michael H.
Crespin, *The Effect of State Redistricting Methods on Electoral Competition
in United States House of Representatives Races*, 4 State Pol. & Pol'y Q.
455 (2004).

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:18 AM, <JBoppjr at aol.com> wrote:

> **
> Very interesting and I am glad to know this.  Where can we find this
> analysis?
>
> When the House Republicans in Indiana proposed a commission, I helped them
> design it to drain the politics out of it.  Ultimately, I felt comfortable
> with it -- even though I have been very concerned about commissions in the
> past. The House Democrats, then in a majority, refused and now the
> Republicans, who gained the majority in 2010, have done the redistricting
> themselves.   Jim Bopp
>
>  In a message dated 10/7/2011 9:13:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> nicholas.stephanopoulos at gmail.com writes:
>
> In the last cycle, at the congressional level, the handful of states that
> use commissions had plans with an average pro-Republican bias of 2%. At the
> state legislative level, the larger number of states that use commissions
> had plans with an average pro-Republican bias of 4%. So commissions don't
> appear to have a systematic pro-Democratic slant, and if anything the
> opposite might be the case (though the sample size is too small to know for
> sure, and these figures include *all* commissions, not just *nonpartisan*commissions).
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Aaron Blake <BlakeA at washpost.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that map also favors Dems, if only slightly. Latham was drawn in
>> with King and has to move districts to challenge Boswell, and the district
>> is swing, but 2/3 of it is Boswell's territory.
>>
>>
>> Aaron Blake
>> The Washington Post
>> The Fix
>> www.PostPolitics.com <http://www.postpolitics.com/>
>> blakea at washpost.com
>> twitter.com/FixAaron
>> 202.503.4669
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> To:        JBoppjr at aol.com, law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu,
>> rhasen at law.uci.edu, law-election at uci.edu
>> Date:        10/07/2011 08:52 AM
>> Subject:        Re: [EL] Check out Brewer,        other GOP officials
>> critical of redistricting map
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>> Iowa?
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