Good Old Gerrymandering

                                         (Florida Congressional Districts)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/07/11/a-judge-says-rules-floridas-gerrymandering-went-too-far-heres-what-he-means/

Good old gerrymandering. Of course the districts are gerrymandered, look at the map--it's crazy. In my opinion, congressional districts should be based on county and be roughly equal size although due to population density urban districts would be smaller and rural larger.  Truthfully one of the major reason for the partisan gridlock in Congress is due to gerrymandering. When you have a district with many people from the right, left , and middle of the political spectrum in it, you can't be on the extreme left or right and get elected. Thus more moderates are elected who will work with the other party to get things done. Just look at the Senate, there are mostly political moderates there who can and will work with the other party. This is very unlike the House where people are one extreme or another AND the election is always decided in the primary thus people stay in the House for decades which is totally against what the framers of the Constitution had in mind.