Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100224:23:17:00
Back to the way that the congressional districts are drawn. tonight, i am talking about gerry mandering which is the practice of drawing the districts to change the rules of the game so that political parties stay in power and get what they want often at the expense of voters. >> reporter: take a look at iowa and look at how rational the lines are, compact and side-by-side communities and makes sense, right? compare that to pennsylvania's 12th. creative, right? up, down, thin, long, skipping communities. now, this is understood to be an incumbent protection district, and in fact, it was congre...
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