As a non-Democrat in PG county, MD, I might as well not even bother voting.

As a Democrat living in Santa Rosa County, FL, (aka "Lower Alabama") I might as well not even bother voting either. I've pretty much resigned myself to having a Republican Congressman until Hell freezes over. I actually thought there might be a chance of a Democratic upset this year because the Democrat who ran in 2004 drew some very respectable numbers for a first-time candidate. Then the guy goes and announces that he's too pro-life to run under the Democratic banner so he's running as an indpendent this time around, making it a three-person race. Might as well go ahead and hold that Republican victory barbecue this weekend.

But I don't see any way gerrymandering fits into the picture here. Our district is as far west as you can go and still be in Florida. Go any further and you're in Alabama. And the state's only one county wide from the Gulf of Mexico on the south to the Alabama border on the north. The only direction in which Congressional boundaries could possibly be redrawn would be to the east, and the people over there are just the same as over here, only more so.