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John Fund calls for a

John Fund calls for a long, hard look at gerrymandering. It's about time. Computer technology has become so good at drawing districts to the whims of whichever party controls the state legislature, that in a very real way, the individual votes of the majority of the US population just don't count. It's like eating at your Mom's versus eating at a restaurant. What she cooks may be good; you may even like it a lot. But the only way you can get a different meal is by going to a whole different house. That's not a good thing for democracy, especially combined with the newly passed Incumbent's Protection Act of 2002.