ElectionsGuy
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« on: October 17, 2013, 01:32:41 AM » |
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It definitely does. But of course if a democrats is drawing the lines, they will combine less D suburbs to make more D districts (IE Illinoi), and pretty much "pack" big rural republican chunks in a few districts, so it depends . If a republican draws the lines, they will "pack" urban areas into a few districts, and combine suburbs and rural areas to make maximum amount of districts (IE Pennsylvania). I would say when its all equal though, it absolutely does hurt them, as packed urban areas are much more D than rural areas are R. And many times, its unavoidable to pack extremely democratic districts, while you can almost always combine something other than rural land into a district. So I think the answer is yes.
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