Drawing New Political Maps
The primary elections are just 79 days away, and the general election that'll put the next Legislature, governor, and other state officials in place takes place in less than a year.
The political folk in Texas are consumed by those elections. But many of them are thinking ahead to the next Census numbers and to the biggest political job in front of the Legislature in 2011: Drawing new political maps.
Think like they think and your mind will go to the long game instead of the short one. The short game is the elections. The long game is maps ...
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jrhenson
Some Democrats are pretty clearly looking to the Obama Justice Department as the backstop. See Veasey's comments about the subject a little more than halfway through here: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/txp_media/pr/speaker_series_files/video_pages/200911_veasey.html
(Sorry folks, working on getting a timer on the QuickTime player we use...)