CONFESSION: Liberals Admit CO House Gerrymandered to Favor Dems - Colorado Peak Politics
After last election cycle, when Colorado House Republicans
received 189,000 more votes than House Democrats, we began to highlight
how grossly gerrymandered the statehouse has become. Now, even the
liberals at the
Daily Kos blog are acknowledging
that the Colorado House is the Democrats’ “best chamber” in the entire
nation. It favors Democrats even more than California’s general
assembly.
Partisan advantage by statehouse. Photo Credit: Daily Kos
The reapportionment process is obviously deeply flawed.
Several prominent figures have advocated for adopting the Iowa model,
in which non-partisan state staff would draw a template for the
reapportionment commission to use, instead of having parties submit
their own maps. But until there is enough political will on both sides
of the aisle, the process will remain broken.
In the meantime, Democrat obstructionists in the House should be
careful. While they may think they’re the party of the people, they’re
not actually representing the majority of people who voted in the last
election. And that’s a sticky position to be in. The moment House
Speaker Dicky Lee Hulinghorst starts to think she earned her majority
instead of stole it, is the moment that things will start to fall apart.
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