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Podcast: Pol and Pop (Politics/Pop Culture)
Episode: FLASHBACK: Get 2 the Point episode 4 - The Roots of All Evil: So... what's gerrymandering?
Description: In case I don't have a new episode to schedule for the day instead, I'm at least putting this up-- Happy Leap Day!--In this episode, I explain how representation of citizens works in the U.S. Government, how redistricting follows the census, what gerrymandering is, where it came from, why it's so bad in general, where things stand currently, and how things are only likely to get worse from here. And I discuss what we can do from here to hopefully make things better instead. All that in under 25 minutes... so we're not wasting any ti...