US House Redistricting: Kansas

[minionofmidas]

Map talk is heating up again.

They are in session again from april 25th.

[minionofmidas]

I  have no idea if the House will go for this sick puppy, or whether it will pass on the floor of the Senate. Our map looks like shear inspired genius compared to this thing, although part of "this thing" appears admittedly to have been a least change thing, but rather demonically, the map seems to have CA-01 suck up CA-02's most GOP counties, where there are a bit more Dem ones hanging like ripe low hanging fruit to pluck.

Not quite. They could still get CD1 out of SE Kansas and pull in Brown and Pottawatomie minus a thin connector to Manhattan.

[minionofmidas]

It's going to court. This includes the state lege. The House actually voted down the Senate's map for itself.

[minionofmidas]

My impression is that Yoder is a quite talented politician, and pretty safe.  Jenkins could have a problem in a bad Pub year, particularly if the CD trends Dem, which is a distinct possibility. Pompeo's CD changes shape a bit, but as to population, not much was shifted. So that CD is pretty much status quo.

"Safe" is pushing it, but that district is basically secure outside of wave conditions for a decent moderate-looking incumbent regardless of party.

[minionofmidas]

Court has heard testimony for a couple of days, will likely draw its own Senate and Federal maps from scratch. (Though the Senate never voted on the House map, everyone agrees it's basically fine.)

[minionofmidas]

Not me, some journo. (And by "draw from scratch" I suppose all that's meant is not just use one of the many plans submitted to them in toto. Obviously they wouldn't just ignore the 2002 maps.)

"The federal judges indicated through their questioning of a witness that they might be willing to try their hand at drawing district boundaries from scratch rather than rely on proposed maps offered by competing political interests." That's from the only one of the couple of articles I read earlier today that's still at the top of the "recently closed tabs" list. Same article also has something about the State House map being barely ever addressed during the deliberations.

[minionofmidas]

Court has heard testimony for a couple of days, will likely draw its own Senate and Federal maps from scratch. (Though the Senate never voted on the House map, everyone agrees it's basically fine.)

You know what happened to the last Yarbrough who was elected don't you?

Let's put the jam on the lower shelf? His name was Yarb-O-rough.

[minionofmidas]

State House and Senate out too?

Anyways, this is the Senate's original map we used in our national congressional map, except with a different non-Johnson/Wyandotte fragment for CD3.

[minionofmidas]

http://blogs.kansas.com/gov/2012/06/08/court-releases-redistricting-plans-bad-news-for-two-conservative-senate-hopefuls/

[minionofmidas]

While that is quite likely, the Wichita districts needed to contract townwards and one of these challengers lived on the far rurban edge of the district. (Both drawn-out challengers are Wichita area districts.)