Study predicts Missouri will lose House seat in 2011

[pstokely]

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/09/28/study-says-missouri-will-lose-house-seat/

Study predicts Missouri will lose House seat in 2011
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 | 6:45 p.m. CDT; updated 8:01 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, September 28, 2010
BY Eric Holmberg, Kyle Deas

COLUMBIA — Starting next year, Missouri could have one fewer voice in Washington.

Election Data Services released a report Sunday predicting that Missouri will lose one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives when the results from the 2010 census are released later this year. Missouri currently sends nine representatives to Congress.

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Does MO have a Dem or Thug statehouse?

[pstokely]

2. Thug legislature for the past 8 years and going

nt

[Gore1FL]

3. That's OK

We weren't using it anyway.

[pstokely]

4. But what seat willl MO lose

nt

[Gore1FL]

5. I have no idea.

They'll try to redraw it to make it more GOP, of course. But I am not sure how that could be done based on the Geography. Because Gerrymandering is illegal, they aren't going to able to be as blatantly outrageous about redistricting the blue areas.