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Re: Cuomo: New York will sue if Supreme Court rolls back Roe v. Wade |
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Posted by mtk52983 on Thu Jul 12 14:04:15 2018, in response to Re: Cuomo: New York will sue if Supreme Court rolls back Roe v. Wade, posted by chicagomotorman on Thu Jul 12 13:41:11 2018. Just to add my two cents, I agree with your premise about not making this a career and the incumbency advantage, but I am not sure term limits are the solution. Not all problems have short term solutions and the institutional memory of longtime lawmakers helps to prevent having to reinvent the proverbial wheel. Also, it makes lawmakers more susceptible to lobbyists because they don’t have to worry about the end result and have to think about life after politics. A bigger problem, in my opinion, is the lack of competitive seats. When census requires districts to be redrawn, vulnerable members of the majority party get more protection. I don’t think the “efficiency gap” is a panacea because it overstates inefficiencies that naturally occur when you have a large group clustered in one area. Let’s say a hypothetical state has 2,000,000 people spread evenly among 5 districts of equal shape, size, etc. Let us further state that the state is evenly Democrat versus Republican. If one district has 350,000 Democrats because they clustered in one area and the remainder are spread evenly among the remaining 4 districts it would show a huge efficiency gap when you end up with 4 Republicans and 1 Democrat. However, it does highlight that we need to look at how groups are packed/cracked to prevent the possibility of the majority party losing power absent an almost implausible scenario. |
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