Where does Charlie Dent’s district (the 15th) fit in with your ideas for making PA-11 more Dem and PA-17 more GOP?
Dent has been able to win and easily hold PA-15 which is a slight Dem leaning district, although not as Dem as PA-11.
Had Mayor Callahan, Dent’s 2010 opponent, run in 2006 or 2008, Dent would be an ex-Congressman right now. A historically Dem district carried by Kerry such as the PA-15 will eventually fall, and the surrounding area isn’t Republican enough to shore it up without excising Allentown and Bethlehem (and Easton while you’re at it), especially if you want to keep the PA-08 and PA-06 Republican. So the GOP and marginal parts of Lehigh and Northampton Counties can be combined with part of Schuylkill and Montgomery Counties to become a much more Republican PA-15. And if the “pro-choice” Dent is defeated in the primary, I won’t shed any tears.