Reapportionment

The Republican legislative leaders have been saying the same things. Yet if their own, personal, political fortunes are at stake, is taxpayer money suddenly no object? If it takes 25 million dollars to facilitate a Republican gerrymander for 2012, does that money suddenly appear?

The pseudo investigation by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson of New York-based ProPublica, "How Democrats Fooled California's Redistricting Commission," is misleading at best, dishonest at worst and fatally flawed in any case.

Luis Gutierrez is proud Puerto Rican congressman. But does he need a district with an overwhelming majority of Latino voters created so he can win? Here's where it gets complicated.

The U.S. Census Bureau today releases its official 2010 population figures for the nation, and congressional apportionment totals for each state. The numbers let states know if they gain, lose or maintain their congressional seats.

Because most Sunbelt states currently are reliably Republican in presidential races, the simplistic interpretation of the shift in House seats is that Republicans will gain an advantage.

Here is some good news for New Yorkers who may have come to believe they will lose a second congressional seat to Florida among the states, and some bad news for Texans who thought they would gain four seats.

Will a recent lawsuit result in Congress's most dramatic upheaval in almost a hundred years? Probably not, but that's the quixotic hope of the partie...

President Obama does not want the political distraction of Republicans screaming that the Democrats have "fixed" the Census to produce a partisan result.