This is actually a district.
Posted on 09/26/2021 10:15:53 PM PDT by blueplum
NEW YORK (AP) — As political muscle goes, bigger doesn’t always mean better. Just ask New York, Los Angeles and Chicago every four years, when those cities become mostly irrelevant blips on the Electoral College map.
But as congressional redistricting gets underway, some of the country’s most populous cities are taking prominent roles in reshaping the balance of power in Washington. And that’s good news for Democrats.
Robust growth in the liberal strongholds of New York and metropolitan Chicago are poised to give Democrats an edge as their political maps are redrawn to adjust for changes in population over the past decade...
...That trend, coupled with slower growth in the state’s more conservative south, means Illinois Republicans are in danger of losing a pair of House seats...
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This is actually a district.
Some news, we seem to be having our first new map passing in OR soon. The state leg requires a super majority for a quorum so GOP was threatening to absent themselves, they seemed to have accepted a “compromise”, 1 R seat and 1 competitive (D +3 seat). Pretty lame. I wouldn’t accept fewer than 2 GOP leaning seats. Result, maybe a 45% chance at best of electing another Republican next year.
In Texas we have a GOP proposal, makes all GOP seats safe, adds a new seat for each party and *likely* gives us the Hispanic 15th district. Net result would be +2 GOP seats -0 dems. It sounds like this will be the map.
Nebraska, I didn’t know this but in unicameral (and officially nonpartisan but GOP majority) Senate, they can do filibusters, need 2/3s to overcome. The GOP map that would split Omaha failed to clear the threshold. 33 votes needed, GOP has 32 seats, naturally. The proposal only slightly improved the 2nd district. The compromise on the table improves it even slighter.
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