US House Redistricting: Connecticut

[homelycooking]

You've drawn the Farmington Valley (Simsbury, Avon, Canton, Farmington) into CT-01 and I do not think that would go over well from a non-partisan perspective. That area was represented by Nancy Johnson of CT-05 for the longest time.

DeLauro's district looks like a fusion of CT-03 and the old pre-2002 CT-06, so that is actually feasible.

This map isn't a solid 5-0, since there's really not much you can do to help out Jim Himes in his swing district.

[homelycooking]

There's now talk of adding Bridgeport to the 5th to make it more Democratic. Just LOL!

Democrats can't really secure CT-05 without putting CT-04 into doubt, and vice versa. They might even want to consider moving Milford from CT-03 to CT-04 and shift some of the GOP-heavy Gatsby territory (Weston, Wilton, etc) to CT-05 in order to even out margins across the two districts.