Category Archives: Politics of Redistricting

How Gerrymandering fits into efforts to shut down the U.S. Government

Posted on September 28, 2013 by NoahKennedy

There is an interesting and timely piece by Ryan Lizza in a recent The New Yorker piece “Where the GOP Suicide Caucus Lives.”  The Suicide Caucus is a term originated by Charles Krauthammer to describe the radicals in the House who … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics of Redistricting | Leave a comment

Is OPRA a Deterministic or Probabilistic Problem?

Posted on January 27, 2013 by NoahKennedy

An almost universal pair of comments I get from readers so far has been a combination of two observations: 1. Wow, there is so much (social-political and mathematical) complexity to Hands-Off Redistricting! 2. Isn’t there a way to have a computer figure … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundary mathematics, Politics of Redistricting | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

A good idea, but is it possible to bring about?

Posted on January 25, 2013 by NoahKennedy

From the posting of the YouTube video HandsOffRedistricting V1 I’ve already received some very thoughtful and interesting responses.  Most were by email so I’ll anonymize the names, but there was a common thread in many of them: I don’t see a … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics of Redistricting | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment