One of the reasons why Congress keeps reelecting the same people is that we let the politicians draw the voting districts. Each side uses that power, along with sophisticated software, to draw as many "safe seats" for their own party as they can.
In other words, the politicians are allowed to choose the voters, rather than the other way around. It's astonishing to see our elected leaders kicking out one of the fundamental underpinnings of democracy -- free elections that let the people choose.
I'd love to see Unity08, and all the folks gathered in this effort, make a serious pitch for fair elections. There are reform efforts in the states, some of them successful (Iowa, Arizona), and there's a national reform introduced... in the Congress that would require independent redistricting commissions in all states (the Tanner bill, H.R. 2642).
As we gather folks in the middle behind a unity ticket, I think this is the sort of thing we should put our weight behind. The parties won't talk about it, because they've got a nice little racket going. Middle America needs to start talking about it and to force the politicians to do something about it.
