The Clipboard The Clipboard: Deciding Where to Draw the Lines

Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs Home
« The Bush Administration Adopts a Worse-than-Nixonian Tactic | The Clipboard archives | Injustice in Guantanamo »
Comments (0) | Trackbacks (1 in, 0 out) | 

Email this link | Print this article | RDF

Further Reading | Elsewhere | Search Options
Add this entry to your hotlist (View your hotlist)

Deciding Where to Draw the Lines

Date: August 19, 2003 | 20 Jumada al-Akhir 1424 Hijriah
Blog: The Clipboard
Subjects: politics
Ohio Republicans may take a cue from state legislators in Texas and Colorado and tinker with the lines that shape their congressional districts.
Ohio Democrats emerged unscathed from redistricting after the 2000 census when district lines were redrawn to reflect changes in population -- even though the GOP controlled the entire process. The reason? Republicans did not want to anger Rep. Sherrod Brown (D), who threatened to run against Gov. Bob Taft if his district was changed.

Now some Republicans are looking at carving up northeast Ohio, which would reshape the seats of Brown, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D), and possibly other House members. "I've seen some plans floating around to do some line adjustments," state party Chairman Bob Bennett said.

Brown said the new effort is a White House ploy to expand the GOP's majority in the House. "The question is: How partisan do they want to look in one of the key states in a presidential election?" he said. "There will be a political price to pay for them. That's not a threat; it's an observation."

Bennett said the idea of redrawing the state's congressional lines was sparked by local Republicans who feel marginalized, not by Bush administration officials, though he added that he "might have said something to Karl Rove" about the plan. (link)

Killer D's of Ohio, start getting ready to act!
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a fair and balanced niqabi, at 09:50 PM

Comments

No comments yet.

All comments are copyright their authors

RSS feed of comments on this entry

Finished reading and posting comments? Return to The Clipboard

Trackbacks

What is trackback?
You Pinged Me

Here's who's pinging me:

RSS feed of trackbacks to this entry

Note: The links in the "You pinged me" section are generated automatically as a way of showing who is linking to me. Display of these links does not constitute endorsement of the content of those sites.


Further reading

Recent entries

The following is a list of the ten most recent entries in The Clipboard as of Mar 03, 2006:

View a list of all entries in The Clipboard

Related entries

This entry has been tagged as covering the following subjects: politics. The following is a list of the ten most recent entries in Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs that share any of these tags:

A semantic analysis of this entry also suggests the following keywords to search for related content on: ohio, Ohio, republicans, Republicans, lines, Brown, House, brown, house, state, want, congressional, though, rep, GOP, bennett, gop, Bob, Bennett, Rep, district, bob

What links here: View a list of other entries in this blog (if any) that link to this entry

Or look generally for informational pages on my website tagged with politics

Results of Semantic Search

A semantic search of Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs suggests the following as the ten entries most closely related to this entry:



Elsewhere

External resources

Check out other web pages (if any) that I've bookmarked via del.icio.us that share the same tags: politics

Explore reference materials from Answers.com about these subjects: politics

Read news stories at Common Times about these subjects: politics

View search results at gada.be metasearch service for these subjects: politics

Find books at Amazon.com on these subjects: politics

Other views

Want to see what other bloggers have to say about the article I cited above? Check these resources to see lists of blogs (if any) with entries that are about this article or have linked to it.

Check Waypath for blog entries generally related to this entry, or Technorati or Bloglines for blog entries that link to this entry.

Technorati tags: View blog entries, bookmarks and photos tagged by others with the same subjects as this entry:



Search options

     

For external resources on the topic of this entry, you can run a search for its title deciding where to draw the lines (Google, DayPop, Feedster) or keyword(s) politics (Google, DayPop, Feedster). DayPop is a search engine similar to Google that focuses on searching news sources and blogs. Feedster searches blogs via RSS feeds.

Home
Notice on copyrighted content: This entry in The Clipboard is arranged as follows: an excerpt is posted in italic text, followed by my commentary in Roman text. Below this is a horizontal bar. The first paragraph below the horizontal bar is a citation, followed by the full text of an article, in roman text. The excerpts and articles, as defined above, are copyright their authors. These materials are being copied here for educational and research purposes and to advance understanding, under the Fair Use section of U.S. Copyright Law. My commentary, as defined above, may be copied, displayed, or distributed for non-commercial purposes as long as you give me (Al-Muhajabah) proper attribution as the author.