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To: deport
If you look at the plan overlap analysis, you can really how this map is an incumbent-protection plan. Joe Barton is the only incumbent whose new district is not 60% composed of constituents from his old district. Not that it matters to Barton because his new district is still strongly GOP; just not overwhelmingly GOP.
14 posted on 11/16/2001 1:08:35 PM PST by writmeister
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To: writmeister
....If you look at the plan overlap analysis, you can really how this map is an incumbent-protection plan. .....

The Judges said as much in their opinion and alluded to the plan providing a split likened to previous party line votes, thus a majority to democrats. I'm not familiar with the districts to know which may become swing districts if the GOP gets a good candidate. I'm in the 9th and it's locked down solid for the dems along with the Ken Turner district just to our north.

It appears the GOP will pick up the two newly created districts and hopefully have a chance at others in a few years. I doubt this will be reversed on appeal, imo.

31 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:57 PM PST by deport
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