Try this one on for size - NC-12 -
Posted on 10/27/2010 8:07:35 PM PDT by Libloather
Very good run down. IIRC, the General Assembly is currently 30-20 D for the Senate and 68-52 D for the House. If that could turn, it would make a huge difference come redistricting time.
Wake Co currently has a population of 900K, and a Congressional District was 696,952 in 2000. Don’t know what it will be for 2010. So Wake would have to get carved up no matter what. The CSA (Combined Statistical Area) of Raleigh, Durham, Cary is about 1.7 million, almost 3 CD’s and has grown rapidly in the past 10 years. Whoever gets to carve it up will do it to help their party.
Good luck on Tuesday
SNC, that’s fantastic information. I never knew that was why Wake County was split three ways, but knowing that the General Assembly here is Democrat, it makes perfect political sense.
I still think Price pulls it out here in the Fourth, but it’s going to be close. He won’t have that Durham black racist Democrat wave from 2008 to ride, and I’m not sure how enthused the granola crowd next door in Orange is right now. It’s going to come down to southwestern Wake and northern Chatham to pull this out for us. Let’s hope there haven’t been too many liberal Yankees moving into Apex/Cary/Fuquay-Varina the past few years!
If Lawson pulls this out, people around here in Durham, even in my heavily liberal neighborhood (Tuscaloosa-Lakewood, west central Durham) are going to lose their minds. And I, for one, will be ecstatic.
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Try this one on for size - NC-12 -
Massachusetts - the home of gerrymandering. Named after Governor Gerry who lived at Gerry’s Landing by the Charles River in Cambridge. The name comes from the shape of the congressional district that looked like a salamander.
I was going through old posts, and had to respond to yours...
I’m a native North Carolinian.
I cut my political teeth working for Reagan.
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My apologies if I offended by referring to Birkenstock-wearing vegetarian liberals. I actually know some conservative vegetarians. And my doctor, who has me on a prescription for high cholesterol, has hinted that I should cut way back on meat, if not go whole-hog (haha) and become a vegetarian.
No offense taken.
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