gerrymandering assumes that the newly redrawn district is consistent with the registered voters... otherwise it would be a crap shoot.

while the urban areas have the larger population & tendancy to vote a more liberal agenda, it does not follow that every rural resident is going to vote for the right.

so... take that very effective organization of President Obama and use them to register everyone they can... and let everyone in the redrawn districts get a shot to vote... and present a balanced overview, though it seems hard when we have wingnut tea party members who are totally unbalanced.   

too optimistic??? I hope not.