2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Michigan

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So after everyone discussed COIs a while back, I decided to explore a map that was mainly based on COIs. It ended up unusual. The 'guiding' districts in this case were CD5 which has all of the tri-cities and Flint, CD4 which crosses the Saginaw river to link the Thump and the Upstate, CD1 which actually gets all of the non-urbanized west coast, and CD7 which puts all the notable central MI college towns together. CD9 gets the Grosse Pointe's because their local lines cross the border of Wayne and Macomb. One of the AA seats has all the arabs, as I tend to prefer when possible. The main victim of the mid-state getting their COI's is CD8, but it isn't affected too much as far as pop distribution is concerned.

Trump won 7 seats when he won by less than 1%. When whitmer won by 10% she no only got the 6 Clinton seats and the swingy Macomb seat, she also got the Grand Rapids seat by <3K votes.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/c7f30e42-14ef-444d-a14b-2e7b25639720

Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like you put Moolenar, Kildee, and Slotkin in the same district(5)

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Can somebody do a DRA for the Birch Plan. I think that's the one that ultimately will be selected

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That's a shocker, I expected Birch

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Unfathomably based. Michigan has had the best redistricting process in the country and I don't think it's particularly close.

How is GR Muskegon good.

"Partisan Fairness"^tm
It's stupid, but it's in the Michigan constitution so...

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https://twitter.com/DavidEggert00/status/1475941295067648001?s=20

Rooting for Levin here

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People realize that he only did like 2.5 points better than Trump in a very ancestrally Republican area? John James only lost it by 2, although I have a hunch some of it was a media market advantage? No other reason for James to win Muskegon .

That was before he got to congress and voted to impeach Trump. That will cause the moderate suburbanites to salivate over him