Believe it or not, the next decennial round of congressional and state legislative redistricting activity is just around the corner. It's actually been a factor in the huge amounts of time and money the two parties have poured into Virginia's legislative elections, where the state senators elected today will still be in office when redistricing occurs (Democrats have a good shot at retaking the senate).

I've published a brief piece at the DLC's Ideas Primary site on the many lessons learned from the last round of legal and political jousting over redistricting. The bottom line is that the environment for redistricting reform isn't particularly good in most states, despite the green light federal courts have given to political gerrymandering.