Florida Man for Crime
The Impartial Spectator
Junior Chimp
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« on: November 07, 2018, 04:12:43 PM » |
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Dems ought to baconmander basically every single district into Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens/Bronx (except for the handful of areas where a safe Dem seat can be drawn without that, such as Albany area, Buffalo area, and probably Rochester area.
Short of that, however, here is a 24-2 map by PVI with 2020 population estimates. It could benefit from polishing, and in particular it needs careful attention to the differences between Obama 2012 and Trump 2016, since the PVIs may be different after another Trump election in 2020. But I think this can be a reasonable starting point for consideration.
It should be very clear that Republicans have made gerrymandering/election rigging a blood sport, and blood demands blood. Any considerations of quaint ideas such as "compactness" or any other such silliness must be sacrificed at the altar of North Carolina and Ohio (among others).
NY-01: D+4.8
NY-02: D+5.0
NY-03: D+8.5
NY-04: D+8.5
NY-05: D+9.8
NY-06: D+12.2
NY-07: D+42.6
NY-08: D+15.1
NY-09: D+24.1
NY-10: D+32.1
NY-11: D+16.1
NY-12: D+25.0
NY-13: D+38.7
NY-14: D+23.3
NY-15: D+44.3
NY-16: D+13.8
NY-17: D+6.5
NY-18: D+7.3
NY-19: D+5.9
NY-20: D+6.0
NY-21: R+14.3
NY-22: D+6.2
NY-23: R+16.0
NY-24: D+6.2
NY-25: D+6.3
NY-26: D+6.2
At the same time as passing a map along these general sorts of lines, NY should draw an alternative fair/neutral map and pass a law that says that if all other states, including states like Ohio and North Carolina, etc agree to pass fair neutral maps under the same overarching framework, then NY will automatically immediately implement the fair/neutral alternative map for the next election, mid-decade.
All other Democratic states should do exactly the same thing, including California abolishing their commission for Congressional districts (keep it for state legislature) and drawing a 53-0 Dem gerrymander (or whatever close to that is possible, maybe conceding 2 or 3 seats to the Republicans).
Also, as long as the Senate remains rigged in favor Republicans, Democrats should have no qualms whatsoever about rigging the House in favor of Democrats. After the Republican party is made to feel the pain of being permanently locked out of the House, then hopefully all Americans can come together in good faith to implement fundamental comprehensive electoral form, to institute a system of actual representative democracy in America.
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