Gerrymandering the census is unethical and illegal or should be.  I am sure teh census has been politicized and stretched but gerrymandered?  Exactly what does she mean by the term and in what way will it be gerrymandered?

Now polticians have long since learned to cut up districts into tortured shapes to make the districts in caractures of Frankenstien monsters but not directly with teh census.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

First - WOOF!

Second - ok to gerrymander if in favor of liberals. they are just better people, that care more and deserve special/different treatment.

Third - To gerrymander by parsing race, gender, religion, income, parental status, etc. What is this country coming to?

 Four - please map these special districts, so I can avoid them.

The libs are totally, utterly out of any remaining shreds of self control.

Soon they will be running wild on the streets, flipping cars, burning buildings, looting and creating mayhem.

Happy Obamatime to all the brain dead zombies who wished for this!

 Where do these people come from? I do think that she's come up with a workable suggestion, however. By using obama's  list of ACORN thugs as enumerators, and having them report directly to Rahm Emanuel at the White House with the census results, there may be no need for a census or one of those pesky elections in our future. 

She would be screaming her blooody head off if a conservative, Republican President would do this. 

Notice that she celebrates as Americana  "using Census data to create voting districts that artificially lean toward one end of the political spectrum or the other—is as uniquely an American tradition as Thanksgiving".  That only applies to Democrats I bet.  Republicans that would do the same if given the opportunity would be vilified as attempting to disenfranchize some Democratic special interest group.

How about simply counting all the citizens and leaving it at that so that the states are properly represented in the House of Representatives.

If you ever want to see the most blatant gerrymandering and census use of  here is a article,

Charlotte Observer
Redistricting panel chair resigns to avoid conflict
By Mark Johnson
April 2, 2002

N.C. Sen. Brad Miller resigned Monday as senior chairman of the Senate redistricting committee, saying it would be a conflict to remain in that role while running for Congress in a district he helped draw.

Miller, a Democrat who helped draw the state's new 13th congressional district, has been criticized by Republicans as a symbol of gerrymandering, when the political party in power draws district maps to preserve or advance its own interests.

Miller said he will remain on the committee but should not continue as chairman since he is running in the new district. Last year, when the committee did its work, Miller repeatedly said he was contemplating running but had not declared himself a candidate.

"It was awkward before," Miller said. "It would cross the line if I were to play the same kind of role, now that I've filed" as a candidate.

Miller's committee finished its work in November, and he began campaigning and raising money in December. His chairmanship could have resurfaced as an issue because of pending court challenges that could send legislators back to draw yet another set of maps.

The states draw new district lines every 10 years to reflect population shifts measured by the census. North Carolina received an additional district because of the state's population growth during the 1990s. The 13th district stretches from Greensboro to Raleigh.

During the redistricting process, Miller and other Democrats said they were aiming to improve their party's numbers within the state's congressional delegation. Democrats now hold five of 12 congressional seats. The new district lines make it easier to increase the Democratic ranks.

"The whole thing has been so blatantly self-serving and bizarre from the beginning," said U.S. Rep. Robin Hayes, a Concord Republican, whose district was made more Democratic under a map that Miller helped draw. "This is something that they whisper about behind closed doors in Washington at (Democratic headquarters). He was the first one that had the nerve and the gall to openly say it."

Miller's role remained an issue after the new district lines were drawn last fall, because the maps may not be final. The N.C. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Thursday over a Republican lawsuit charging that the state legislative districts violate the N.C. Constitution's requirement that district lines not divide counties.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit by Utah claiming that the new congressional seat awarded to North Carolina should have gone to Utah because the census used an unconstitutional method of counting people.

If either court rules against the new district maps, the House and Senate redistricting committees likely will have to redraw them and, then, the full General Assembly will have to approve them.

Miller said in an Observer story Sunday that if the U.S. Supreme Court takes away the state's 13th district, that would pressure Democrats to pick up another congressional seat somewhere else. One logical avenue to do that would be to further alter Hayes's district to make it safe for a Democrat. Sen. Frank Ballance, a co-chairman of the Senate redistricting committee, is also a congressional candidate, but in the 1st District in northeastern North Carolina. He does not plan to resign.

"I've been fair in the past," Ballance said. "I can be fair in the future."