US House Redistricting: Maryland

[dpmapper]

Maybe the Pubs should send a telegram to the MD Dems, that if they kill off a Pubbie in MD, Cooper in TN is finished. An semi-erose go for the kill map will be passed in TN. Just a thought. And I just drew one (not yet posted; my prior map was more "gentlemanly." I'm serious. I feel a bit bad. Cooper is a throughly decent man. I feel unclean. But the MD Dems are being a bit piggish. It's time to retaliate.

Look what the Republicans did in Georgia to Barrow.  I think getting rid of a Republican in Maryland is simply retaliation for that.  There was no need to eliminate Barrow.  In fact, his seat could have been easily made black majority. 

Barrow is a pretty bad example, actually, since what they did was make Savannah whole.  The new map in southeast Georgia actually respects COI more than it used to.   

[dpmapper]

Not that this isn't a Democratic gerrymander (it is), but we should remember that it could've been a worse gerrymander.  I have seen several solid maps on sites such as DKE that would eliminate both Bartlett and Harris.  In all honesty, I don't have much sympathy for Illinois Republicans or North Carolina Democrats given the previous maps in those states.  Ohio is easily the worst map so far, imo (although Michigan is also pretty bad).  Regarding Tennessee/Cooper, I agree with those who have said that this could just as easily be viewed as payback for Barrow.

The previous IL map was a bipartisan plan, so it's not completely equivalent to the NC situation.  Just sayin'.