Why Obama should come to Texas to help with gerrymandering

Texas' districts

Obama recently announced his return to politics in order to fight gerrymandering.

Click through to see Texas' most gerrymandered districts. Texas' districts

Obama recently announced his return to politics in order to fight gerrymandering.

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Barack Obama has been clearly enjoying his post-presidency vacation, but according to his former attorney general, he's now "ready to roll" and return to politics in order to tackle gerrymandering.

Obama has not indicated where he will focus his efforts, but a good place to start would be Texas, home to two out of the 10 most gerrymandered districts in the nation and where a panel of federal judges recently ruled that state's oddly-shaped congressional lines are hurting minority voters.

In a nutshell, gerrymandering allows congressional districts to be drawn in shapes that pack Democratic or Republican voters together, leading to "safe" districts for incumbents.

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"The point of gerrymandering isn't to draw yourself a safe seat but to put your opponents in safe seats by cramming all of their supporters into a small number of districts," wrote Washington Post politics reporter Christopher Ingraham. "This lets you spread your own supporters over a larger number of districts."

If Obama isn't available, Texas could also ring up Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is launching a new effort against gerrymandering, according to Politico.

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"Gerrymandering has created an absurd reality where politicians now pick their voters instead of the voters picking their politicians," said Schwarzenegger in a recent video.

According to The Washington Post's findings, The Lone Star State's two most notoriously gerrymandered districts are Lloyd Doggett's 35th congressional district, and Marc Veasey's 33rd congressional district.

To see images of both districts, as well as Texas' other most-gerrymandered districts, click through above.