Comments about ‘How will the state's political redistricting shake out?’

That's easy to answer. The Republicans will gerrymander to get what they want, and the people of the state can like or lump it. That's what happened followign the 2000 census, and I see no indication that anything different will happen this time around.

Utah's doing the same as here. Pennsylvania Republicans are about to meet in a smoke-filled room to decide how many electoral votes President Obama will win in their state. Their proposed plan is to gerrymander the Electoral College to make sure that even if President Obama wins Pennsylvania in a blowout next year, the state would still give more of its electoral votes to the Republican candidate. If Republicans in other key swing states copy the proposed law in Pennsylvania, well have a system where President Obama could sweep most of the largest, critical swing states in the country (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, and Michigan) and the Republicans would "earn" a net gain of 20 or more electoral votes. The result of this plan could be a right-wing Republican President like Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann a decision made by GOP state legislators, and not by the voters who have to live with that choice. America needs to fight back against the Republican legislators pushing this scheme, to protect the fairness and integrity of our elections. Koch Brother's sponsors of shameless GOP schemes like these won't go unpunished!.

Thats how will Utah's political redistricting shake out to.

Every 10 years every state goes through this political event. The writers of the Constitution only wanted to keep numbers in voting districts equal. Most of those commenting on this issue could care less about the numbers. All they seem to care about is if their city or county has been divided. If you have tried making a map, you will see how complex that it is. squeeze into one area and it pops out somewhere else

I have looked at the near final maps and the claim by anyone of gerrymandering is ridiculous. Also, protecting incumbents doesn't appear to be an issue. It certainly is not possible to please many of the people, including me.

Redistricting will be old news by the end of October and won't be back until 2021 ten years from now. So hang in there, only a week or so to go.

Why do legislators even get to set their own districts? It would be much more fair to pick a committee from a different state, and have them draw up the districts. The chance of gerymandering is almost eliminated because people who have no knowledge of what area's lean what way politically. But it will never happen, how would the republicans keep the stranglehold they have on the state.