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To: PermaRag

Arizona’s been 55% R / 45% D in popular votes for a while and the current congressional representation is 5R / 4D.

That’s about as close to the right numbers as you can get. Of course that can always change next election cycle.


24 posted on 06/29/2015 11:47:23 AM PDT by Desertaz
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To: Desertaz

In the 2012 election, the first to be used under the new district maps, Republicans held only 4 of the 9 districts despite taking 54% of the two-party vote — now, that’s a partisan Rat gerrymander.

In the “landslide” Republican election of 2014, CD #2 did flip the right direction and the delegation is now 5R/4D as you noted.

But the so-called non-partisan redistricting commission, in actuality controlled by Democrats, created 4 hyper-Republican districts, 2 solid Rat districts, and — their crowning achievement — 3 marginal districts (1, 2 and 9) which although marginal *clearly* favor the bad guys.

An unbiased commission would have created an easy 5/4 split for the Republicans and a map created by a Republican legislature could have made it 6-3 (or at least 5R/3D and 1 marginal favoring R) with only a small amount of creativity in drawing the lines.


27 posted on 06/29/2015 12:17:45 PM PDT by PermaRag (If Trayvon had a father, he'd look just like Obama)
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