The Farm Team: Districts Gerrymandered to Favor Incumbents

• By David M. Drucker
• Roll Call Staff
• July 29, 2008, Midnight

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
That cliché rings particularly true in California politics, where the state Legislature is filled with ambitious politicians who have few places to go when term-limited except Congress, whose Members in turn generally have no intention of going anywhere — ever.