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Pennsylvania Supreme Court issues new election map
Fox News ^ | 19 February 2018 | AP

Posted on 02/19/2018 12:48:33 PM PST by napscoordinator

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania's high court issued a new congressional district map for the state's 2018 elections on its self-imposed deadline Monday, all but ensuring that Democratic prospects will improve in several seats and that Republican lawmakers challenge it in federal court. The map of Pennsylvania's 18 congressional districts is to be in effect for the May 15 primary and substantially overhauls a congressional map widely viewed as among the nation's most gerrymandered. The map was approved in a 4-3 decision. Most significantly, the new map likely gives Democrats a better shot at winning seats in Philadelphia's heavily populated and moderate suburbs, where Republicans had held seats in bizarrely contorted districts, including one labeled "Goofy Kicking Donald Duck."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: elbridgegerry; election; electionmap; elections; gerrymandering; judicialtyranny; localnews; paelectionmap; paping; pennsylvania; philadelphia
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To: napscoordinator

Comparing the Pennsylvania maps in 2016.
TOP: The old map (drawn in 2011) had 12 Trump seats, 6 HRC seats.
BOTTOM: New map has 10 Trump seats, 8 HRC seats, per @Nate_Cohn
#papolitcs

https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/965713784349384704


81 posted on 02/19/2018 2:51:34 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: Ouderkirk
That the court felt compelled to do it speaks badly of the politicians of PA.

More like Democrat-appointed judges changed the map to benefit Democrats.

82 posted on 02/19/2018 2:52:13 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Red Badger; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; Clintonfatigued

It’s the Legislature’s purview, NOT the judicial.
It’ll get thrown out by the appeals court.

The democrats are desperate to take the House back in the midterms, and the three assclown Dems on the PA court are trying to help.


83 posted on 02/19/2018 3:03:14 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I still say she is going to run, I would bet a fortune on that but I’m broke.

Are you broke because you make a lot of bad bets?

84 posted on 02/19/2018 3:05:49 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: DoodleDawg
States are supposed to have authority over marriages, too.

No state should have "authority" over marriages.

85 posted on 02/19/2018 3:07:59 PM PST by wastedyears (Americans are dreamers too.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Can anyone put up Mel Watt’s N.C. district?

No, but here's Jim Clyburn's in South Carolina.


86 posted on 02/19/2018 3:12:01 PM PST by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: napscoordinator

Not true AFAIK, the Legislature came up with replacement, Rats did not like it.


87 posted on 02/19/2018 3:21:15 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: upchuck

Just a shot in the dark here but guess is that congressional district has one of the highest food stamp usage rates in the nation.


88 posted on 02/19/2018 3:21:27 PM PST by MSF BU
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To: Trump20162020
More like Democrat-appointed judges changed the map to benefit Democrats.

The Pennsylvania SC is elected. This was part of the D's mini-tsunami last year that followed Clinton's defeat.

It should pass, and I'd rather see this happen than President Hillary. At least the fact that the map doesn't look gerrymandered means that some of the districts are competitive and winnable by Rs. The issue in electoral maps for the Ds is that they all tend to live together in cities, so in order to spread their votes around takes some creative gerrymandering.

I don't believe Mitch when he says that the Rs are going to lose seats in November. (Or, at least I hope.)

89 posted on 02/19/2018 3:23:39 PM PST by Sooth2222 (O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything.)
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To: napscoordinator

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pa-supreme-court-unveils-new-voting-maps-republicans-likely-to-sue?utm_content=buffer4addf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


90 posted on 02/19/2018 3:23:57 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

IOW, the Demwits have five on the court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Gerry


91 posted on 02/19/2018 3:24:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SMGFan

Except neither Trump nor Clinton will be on the ballot. Each race will have its own dynamics. The Republicans will need to get and work to keep all of there seats. I would not be surprised if the incumbents do better in New areas then the pundits would tell you can win.


92 posted on 02/19/2018 3:33:45 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: napscoordinator
but those two judges are dead! and why would a justice from Canada be involved in this process?


93 posted on 02/19/2018 3:41:22 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Exactly right! I am furious about this.

USSC must be the alternative as there is no rule of law in this state of PA.


94 posted on 02/19/2018 3:41:30 PM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: FredZarguna

Exactly. Courts way overstep their bounds in so many ways. Why legislatures do what courts order them to do is a mystery since such court orders violate separation of powers at minimum.


95 posted on 02/19/2018 3:52:23 PM PST by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: SJSAMPLE

Left wing hacks decided this...are not going to win this. This is 100% wrong and we need to ensure this is pushed back.


96 posted on 02/19/2018 3:54:10 PM PST by LOVETRUMP
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
They’re setting things up for their messiahs return in 2020: Hillary F. Clinton. I still say she is going to run, I would bet a fortune on that but I’m broke, but make no mistake - she feels it is her destiny. She is on a mission from Satan. Get prepared to hear “WHY AREN’T I 50 POINTS AHEAD!!” again.



Sad thing the Democrats won't be stupid enough to nominate her again :'(

97 posted on 02/19/2018 3:57:38 PM PST by KavMan
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"They’re setting things up for their messiahs return in 2020: Hillary F. Clinton. I still say she is going to run, I would bet a fortune on that but I’m broke, but make no mistake - she feels it is her destiny. She is on a mission from Satan."

I agree she'll be a candidate again by 2020 but I think she is more likely to be a candidate for a liver transplant than a candidate for President.

I heard that she graduated from wine to hard liquor since her defeat at the hands of Trump in 2016. She is not in good health, she's prescribed multiple medications and the alcohol isn't helping. Or so I heard. (Source was a Clinton author who was interviewed on WOR. I don't recall the author's name but it will probably come to me as soon as I post this. He was touting his new book.)

98 posted on 02/19/2018 4:02:29 PM PST by Sooth2222 (O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; LoveUSA; NFHale; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; randita; ...

Kos crunched numbers, they have PVI but not the exact Pres percentages, district numbers changed around, which was so unnecessary and makes it harder to analyse.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/19/1742874/-Pennsylvania-Supreme-Court-releases-new-Congressional-Map

https://images.dailykos.com/images/509750/large/MapCompare.jpg-large?1519072592

Based on this we figure on losing (new district numbers)

CD 5 for sure (Meehan, who is retiring amid scandal rat PVI now +13)

Maybe CD’s 6 (Costello rat PVI +1.7 was R+2) and 7 (RINO Dent’s open seat, PVI rat +0.5 was R +4 in old district number 15)

While possibly gaining CD 8 (Cartwright GOP PVI almost the same, Trump carried the district)

In addition Fitzpatrick, now in CD 1 has his PVI reduced from 1.6 R to 0.55 R.


99 posted on 02/19/2018 4:10:11 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: napscoordinator

Just because they issued a decision doesn’t mean it was properly within their constitutional AUTHORITY.

Judges usurp authority all the time. They must be stopped.


100 posted on 02/19/2018 4:23:25 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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