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If the mapmakers can't draw safe districts for each of the 101 Republicans elected last November, they'll be pushed into a kind of political LIFO accounting — last in, first out.
But the voters took care of that for them, and now the Republicans — in the Texas House in particular — have to figure out how to draw safe or nearly safe districts for their incumbents.
"The root of our state's inabilities to deal with our crushing fiscal problems and pressing policy issues is the power of the Legislature to draw safe district lines for incumbents," said Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, one of the government watchdog groups involved in the effort.
Even before databases and computers and gerrymander-loving legislatures allowed Republicans to draw safe conservative districts, the true believers enjoyed the support of a vast right-wing infrastructure of outside donors, highly motivated grass-roots supporters, think tanks and media outlets.
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The 101 Republicans in the House will try to draw 101 safe Republican seats and, failing that, to draw as many safe seats as they can, putting the remaining Democrats into swing districts when they can.
Redistricting offers Republicans a chance to institutionalize their November victories, but it will be difficult to draw a safe seat for each of the 101.
Though the Republicans have a supermajority in the House, it will still be tough for them to draw enough safe G.O.P. districts to protect all of their members from competitive elections in 2012.
After the 2010 elections, the Chamber and other business interests funneled millions of dollars into Republican redistricting efforts around the country, helping draw overwhelmingly safe Republican districts whose occupants — many among the most conservative House members — are now far less vulnerable to challenges from more moderate Republicans.
