US House Redistricting: Kansas

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Absent legal restrictions, the GOP will want to make CD-03 a couple of percent more GOP if it can.

I'm not sure it can be done without marginalizing CD-2. McCain's percentage in the whole counties of the proposed CD-2 is 52.17%, compared to 49.51% in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties (a slight plurality). In 2004, Bush received 56.75% in the whole counties of the proposed CD-2, compared to 56.40% in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties. Republicans should be safe in both districts most of the time, but short of putting Topeka and Lawrence in CD-1 I wouldn't try too hard to make CD-3 a Republican stronghold. But then you end up with the very ugly shapes that the OP was trying to avoid.

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

http://midwestdemocracyproject.org/blogs/entries/if-you-live-kansas-or-care-about-kansas-you-ought-look-proposed-new-congressional-map/

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That map can be summed up in three letters: WTF?

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Three maps were introduced by a Republican state Senator. They all look pretty much the same, so I pulled this one from DKE:



Shockingly sane-looking.

You mean they're not going to let Kansas City be outvoted by ten of thousands of square miles of dirt after all? Kansas may actually end up with a map that doesn't resemble something from out of the deepest, darkest corner of H. P. Lovecraft's imagination? I'm speechless.

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Two more ridiculous plans state house members have come up with...

I guess that's about what it takes to keep Manhattan in the 2nd district. Proposed by a Republican from just east of Manhattan.

What's this supposed to be? A Johnson-hating Democrat's wet dream? Proposed by a Wichita Democrat.

Antelope 1 is not "ridiculous." You just don't like it.

It's far less ridiculous than any map that any map that puts Wyandotte and Morton Counties in the same district. I still prefer the Senate map, though.