North Carolina 2020 Redistricting

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What do you guys think about this map?

https://davesredistricting.org/join/d1ce6b90-6e65-4b09-a69e-7567801509f1

It's a 5D-7R-1T map that doesn't look too ugly.

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Hold on, does Governor Cooper get a say in any of this? It seems like he should.

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Hopefully the courts redo the 5/10 and 7/8/9 lines.

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Guys guys, lets not forget the real tragedy by the NC GOP

They renumbered the districts


/s

wikipedia nerds seething

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I never want to hear again how the gop has a systemic bias in its favor

NY can have a 22-4 map and get away with it

Oregon can get away with its bs

Illinois can get away with its bs

These rulings always go in one direction. Always.

We look forward to Republicans joining us in the passage of a fair redistricting initative nationwide.

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Oregons map is pretty close to NC. Both were clean but still quite brutal gerrymanders with merely 1 or 2 extra county splits.

Nope, they weren't even comparable.

The gerrymander in OR is tame, if there is one at all. 4-2 in OR is blantantly beneficial to the GOP and would require actively trying to carve a second red seat. Maybe 4-1-1 is fairer than 5-1, but honestly, neither of them are that bad.

NC, on the other hand...If you ask me the maps used in the 2020 elections (8-5) were about fair. Instead, the NCGOP - whose congressional maps have now been struck down thrice by various courts over the past decade - decided to kill the possible fair combinations (8-5-1 or even 8-6) and went with a 10-3-1. The old maps that were twice struck down were 10-3. So this decision is based and completely justified. The NCGOP can keep getting their maps overturned unless and until they get into their heads that blatant partisan gerrymanders aren't flying anymore (and yes, I know blue states like IL, NY and MD have even worse gerrymanders, but NC has a much longer and more inflammatory recent history of gerrymandering).

How is 4-2 blatantly beneficial? Draw a map in Oregon that keeps all of Eastern Oregon whole. It's most likely going to be 2 Safe D 1 Likely D in the Portland suburbs and 1 tossup and finally a Lean D or Lean R in the south. Also of course a Safe R eastern seat.

Lfromnj is correct here. Give girlboss Kotek credit for this beautiful gerrymander, dammit!

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Proposed Chapel Hill district for tomorow.

Found their draft for the 18th.

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Proposed Chapel Hill district for tomorow.

Found their draft for the 18th.

What's the partisanship of that one?

About Trump+10 in 2020 if I recall correctly. (Un)fortunately it's also about 120k over population though.

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Pretty clearly time for Dems to take the gloves off. New York is first.

Wouldn't mind if California and Washington revisited their commissions as well