Midknight Review -- new and revised: Same old same old when it comes to our burgeoning Congressional districts.

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:

Unanimous Supreme Court Preserves Principle Of One Person, One Vote — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against challengers seeking to change the long-held interpretation of the principle of one person, one vote. Siding with a lower court, the 8-member high court held that total population …

Editor's notes: This is all about how a congressional district (per House of Representatives) is created. As of today, based on the 2010 Census, a congressional district represents 710,767 people. That is one representative House vote every 710,000 folks. The Conservative opinion is to divide the national into House districts based on eligible voters and not the general population, voter and non-voter alike. In 1910, the average population of a congressional district was a little over 200,000.

Look, for the life of me, I do not see the "big deal" in this political battle. Whatever the case, the Supreme Court has charged that every person in this country, whether a citizen or not, deserves representation. This has nothing to do with who gets to vote, the illegal alien versus the American citizen. Rather, the Court's decision tells us, that all people living in this country, are to be represented in our law making process. Sounds right to me.

What I do know is this: the districts are much much too large. To have the same degree of representation as was the case in 1910, the 435 districts would need to be multiplied by x3. Problem, there comes a point in time, when the House of Representatives would become unmanageable. Could you imagine housing a congressional body of legislators 1370 in size rather than today's population of 435? I guess it could be done, but wow, what a monumental task it would be.

As it turns out, whether "one person one vote" or representation per eligible voter, the Congressional district needs some serious attention, if representation is to be "fair and balanced."
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You may want to read this eightthirtyeight article about the "one person one vote" issue.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Same old same old when it comes to our burgeoning Congressional districts.

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