Colorado 2020 U.S. House Redistricting Discussion

[It’s so Joever]

Boulder county should be split into two.
The Western part of Boulder is more like mountain area and definitely is more culturally in sync with the Western slopes than Longmont and Lafayette.
Any fair map of Colorado splits Boulder and puts some of it into CO-3 (or the equivalent)

Source: Unbiased Coloradan who wants to see the West Boulder-Grand Junction and Longmont/Greeley COIs kept whole.

[It’s so Joever]

Boulder county should be split into two.
The Western part of Boulder is more like mountain area and definitely is more culturally in sync with the Western slopes than Longmont and Lafayette.
Any fair map of Colorado splits Boulder and puts some of it into CO-3 (or the equivalent)

Source: Unbiased Coloradan who wants to see the West Boulder-Grand Junction and Longmont/Greeley COIs kept whole.

You want to cross the Front Range like that and force SW Colorado in with the plains? No way!

Drawing the split like this is just way too obvious of a choice:

Yes but we can’t keep Boulder together anymore.
Going from the east end of even the city of Boulder to the west end is a shocking experience. They clearly do not belong in the same district and it is imperative we best represent the people. For in go in SW Colorado with the plains is not ideal, but we could also give East El Paso county to the plains as well to reduce it a bit.

I am only saying this in the interest of all Coloradans.

[It’s so Joever]

Best way to handle Denver metro IMO is making the hispanic opportunity seat, pairing the rest of Denver with western Arapahoe, and Aurora with Douglas.   



https://davesredistricting.org/join/d714a51f-5edf-441b-8c54-a4ae62a87bee

Yes but put Gilpin and Clear Creek with JeffCo.

[It’s so Joever]

Tried going with Forumlurker's suggestion of putting western Boulder in the same district as Grand Junction, not super happy with the result though. That by necessity puts Boulder in a different district than Fort Collins, which means the Fort Collins district has to either have a long snake jutting into the Denver metro or take parts of Weld to compensate. The latter route means the 4th has to take in Pueblo plus parts of the Western Slope, or a bunch of Denver metro. It's just really awkward.





Joe Neguse and Ken Buck get double stacked inside the 2nd, 4th and 8th are open. 2nd, 3rd, and 8th are competitive; Clinton won the 2nd 49-42 and the 3rd 49-43, while the 8th was a 47-44 Trump district in 2016. Gonna guess Biden easily won all three of them. This could be a likely 6-2 map, though the 8th is composed of counties that had some of the least pro-Democratic trends in 2020.

This is great! It represents the interests of all Coloradans!

-Not a partisan hack

[It’s so Joever]

https://coloradosun.com/2021/05/12/jason-crow-moves-centennial-congressional-redistricting/

Fairly minor news although any district with Aurora will be Safe D but Centennial on the other hand could be placed with Douglas in a swing district.

A district running from Douglas to areas directing bordering Denver is likely to be a fair-fight district. Every congressional map this century in CO has had one of those.

Depending on which parts of Arapahoe would be absorbed into this district, maybe my vote will matter next election!

[It’s so Joever]

So is it Trump+3 or Trump+7 for Boebert’s district?

[It’s so Joever]

This is a clear Republican gerrymander that does not accurately take into account the communities of interest in my home state. Boulder is a mountain town and it belongs with the mountains more than SW Colorado, which is more Hispanic and should go with Pueblo.

And North and South Denver are two very different places. Sure they are technically in the same city, but that’s like saying Staten Island and the Bronx should be in the same district. They need to be separated in a fair map.

[It’s so Joever]

What have these monsters done to my state?

[It’s so Joever]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1431718705579237376?s=20
Would be great if this map is adopted

This is what a fair CO map looks like.

[It’s so Joever]

Even in a true fair map (Not a Forumlurker fair map) North and South Denver would be split with the North being combined with Adams for a Hispanic district and the South being placed with Arapahoe county suburbs.

[It’s so Joever]

Even I would have been less awful.

[It’s so Joever]

It’s a shame they gerrymandered our state and ignored COIs so blatantly. Here is what a COI based map would look like, it ignores the artificial city lines because those really aren’t relevant imo. Are we seriously going to argue a guy in Montbello has more in common with a guy in College View than his literal neighbors just because of city/county boundaries?
This map accurately takes into account the interests of people instead of fake lines drawn by some dead people years ago.

(Ignore my dirty screen, it improves my #populist credentials)

[It’s so Joever]

SPLIT DENVER! MACA!