Gerrymandering

"1. Democrats won in nine of the 10 most gerrymandered districts. But eight out of those districts were drawn by Republicans. 
This speaks to the notion that the point of gerrymandering isn't to draw yourself a safe seat but to put your opponents in safe seats by cramming all of their supporters into a small number of districts. This lets you spread your own supporters over a larger number of districts. And the way to do this is to draw outlandishly-shaped districts that bring far-flung geographic areas together. North Carolina's 12th district, which holds the title of the nation's most-gerrymandered, is a textbook example of this: It snakes from north of Greensboro, to Winston-Salem, and then all the way down to Charlotte, spanning most of the state in the process."

This paragraph came form the Washington's Post article "America's most gerrymandered congressional district" by Wonkblog. Wonkblog explains that gerrymandering gives parties a electoral advantage by redrawing district boundaries. This in turn causes the opposing party to have less seats at their disposition and with less seats come less votes. This is suppose to allow each party to spread their supporters or representers across the country evenly. Voting can be confusing, people often say why vote, my vote won't count anyway. There is a difference between electoral votes and population votes. For President and Vice President Electoral votes are the only ones that count. The house of representatives do take into account the population votes but they ultimately decide who to vote on. They came up with this because they have fear in what the population may do. This is fear comes from knowledge, how many people really keep up to date with politics, why would you vote for someone? because you know they will lead our country the right way or just because they made a good impression on you? All this things matter so in other words the government does this because the house of representatives knows best. They have the knowledge about each candidate, and their credentials, so this is why we have electoral votes. Now popular votes come into account  when it pertains to the state, like mayor, governor etc. The number of representatives for each state has to do with the population of that state, the greater the population the more representatives. I believe that gerrymandering is a way for them to cheat. In the paragraph above it gives the example of North Carolina being shaped weirdly and this causes the boundaries of the state to be proportioned weirdly which changes the population of the state and if it changes the population it also changes the number of representatives the sate has. Gerrymandering gives certain parties advantages and others disadvantages changing the outcome of votes. 

I found this paragraph important because it gave a good example of gerrymandering and helped me understand what it is. But that does mean the idea sits well witch me. Neither does the idea of Senators not having any term limits. Senators can stay in their positions for as long as they want if and when they do their job efficiently of course. I predict the next president will be Republican because the majority of house of representatives is Republican now. Being that our current president is Democratic this will affect the remainder of presidents Obama term, because both any bill that needs to be passed has to go through the house of representatives, and they will only pass bills that benefit their party. Senators should have a shorter term limit because it gives the country a chance for the outcome to be fair. Now most of the house is republican, who knows when it will be democratic again. This gives the other party an advantage over the country for a long amount of time. If senators are let go and new ones are elected it gives the house a chance of changing from party in a fair way. Gerrymandering has been going on for a while now. I didn't know this was a 'thing' until I read this article. Wonkblog also explains in his other article "What 60 years of politic gerrymandering looks like" that states can control gerrymandering. New York has a decreasing level of gerrymandering which they achieved by coming up with a committee specifically to control this and they hold 37 electoral votes which is a good amount. Gerrymandering allows the congress to be unfair with the house of representatives because the number of seats held by each party should be equal this way everything is done fairly now that the house wis made up of more Republicans it won't be fair at all.