| Subject: [EL] census, etc. |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 12/21/2010, 9:39 AM |
| To: Election Law |
Democracy 21 has issued this release, which begins: "In a letter sent today, reform groups strongly urged Speaker-designee Boehner, 'to support, without any weakening changes, the gift, travel and other ethics rules adopted by the House in 2007 in response to the Jack Abramoff scandals.'"
NYT:
"By that new count, Texas will gain four new seats, Florida will
gain two, while New York and Ohio each lose two. Fourteen other
states gained or lost one seat. The gainers included Arizona,
Georgia, South Carolina, Utah and Nevada, and the losers
included Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Louisiana."
Washington
Post: "The westward movement of the U.S. population means
six districts in states that went for Obama will shift to states
that went for McCain -- a small but significant shift that could
help a GOP presidential candidate in 2012, provided they can
hold those states for the party."
See also the
official census data.
Daniel Schuman has this
interesting post at the Sunlight Foundation blog.