Easy GOP gains
Shrink NH-1 away from Carroll/Belknap/Strafford and pick up Nashua suburbs and Salem
If Hogan has a say in MD, just do anything less ridiculous than that abortion of a map they have now
Slice up GA-2
Re-draw lines around Orlando, FL
Slice up TN-5
Slice up KY-3
If Rauner wins re election, eliminate the pie slices radiating out of Chicago
Crack MO-5 between 3 districts
Eliminate the Texas fajita strips, all of the Rio Grande delta can be held in 2 districts, add suburban GOP seats
They'll gain Oregon's 6th no matter what
Most of these would be either illegal or unlikely.
NH - Correct
MD - Only need 60% in MD to override a veto, Democrats are clearly over that threshold in both chambers.
GA - GA-02 is a protected VRA district, so that would be illegal.
FL - Would violate the state constitution.
TN - Correct
KY - State constitution requires whole counties, unless impossible.
IL - Correct
MO - Possible, but risky
Tx - Fajita strips are required by VRA, so illegal.
OR - Probably
Thank you. I'm kinda new to this and i really dont understand the state by state laws of how the VRA has to be applied exactly
So, GA-02's VRA-protected status is why it had to be bumped to Black-majority in 2012? Then, maybe slice it up next decade, and turn GA-07 into an ATL VRA seat (and crack up the more anti-Trump and D-trending suburbs b/w GA-04, 05, 07, and 13? That would make four Georgia VRA seats. Or would GA-02 still need to be VRA even in that circumstance?
I think Jefferson County, KY is already too big to be kept whole in one CD, so it needs to be split into multiple districts (already has parts of KY-04 in it). And I agree, cracking MO-05 is super risky and almost certainly would backfire.
