Yep, but the Bucks margin has dropped from 21k to just 9k if my math is right...
Very interesting. That means that PA-08 finally has a Dem majority of registered voters since the portions of Philly and Montgomery in the district are very heavily Democratic.
I'm about 90% sure that the Montco part is still Republican when it comes to registration and the parts of NE Philly that Murphy has aren't "very heavily" Democratic.
Oh come on, even Ginny Shrader took 55% in the Montco part in 2004. You may be right about the NE Philly part though.
Those areas were deliberately added to PA 08 because the GOP thought Greenwood could hold them...and thus remove a more democratic section of PA13 and make it "winnable"
I'm sure they looked at past results, but also at registration figures
That appears to be the case, but it seems kind of pointless as the 2002 redistricting actually raised the Gore % from 54% in the old PA-13 to 56% in the new district. If they were trying to make it more winnable they would have added Republican parts of Berks or Chester, not Democratic NE Philly.
