As you can see here, state's like Utah, New Mexico and Arizona and growing fast. So if these trends hold up, it looks like all the states marked in blue will get at least two new seats, orange 1 to 2, and red maybe 1. The rest will be losing seats, especially negative growth places like West Virginia. I bet Massachusetts will lose one as well. But neighboring New Hampshire will actually gain one.
politicians will say the darnest things
In other news, SC state judiciary committee voted to ban cockfighting, yet voted down a measure that would increase the penalty for domestic violence to a felony. A female reporter asked a committee member why he voted that way, wondering why protecting the rights of chickens against was more important than those of women. On camera, Rep. John Graham Altman (R) said that it was a stupid question and that the two were not comparable (and that the questioner wasn't too bright either). Altman went on to wonder how dumb these women must be who return to their abuse partner. I guess he has never heard of physiology, let alone battered women's syndrome.
As a result of his foot-in-mouth disease, 00 college students, mostly from Columbia College, marched to the State House to blast him and his fellow sexists.
As the story went national, he offered a non-apology apology telling the State “I’m very sorry the politically correct crowd is using this as some kind of cannon fodder. I’m being charged with the greatest crime of all-- insensitivity.” No, I think the crime you are being accused of is blaming the victim and caring more about your cock (male chicken) than your female constituents.
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