111th House of Reps vs. 112th House of Reps Maps

[Dgov]

Its amazing that Democrats still control NC's delegation.

Only because they gerrymandered it to where it's nearly impossible for them not too.

No - they gerrymandered it so as to control six seats even while trailing by a long way. They control the delegation because both Shuler and Kissell (in different ways) somehow inoculated against the wave. Or maybe just had pisspoor opponents, I dunno. (But, well, yeah on post 2012.)

I'm pretty sure they targeted the 8th (it contains heavily Democratic parts of Charlotte and Fayette for no real reason other than to make it more Democrat) and it just took until 2008 for them to actually win it.

but yeah, expect that to end in 2012.  The Democrats will probably lose 2 seats there just by drawing a fair map (8th and 13th), and 3-4 if the Republicans draw their own gerrymander.

[Dgov]

that's quite a change, esp. in the midwest and interior southwest - only NM and IA are left as non-coastal states with majority Dem US house representation.

Both of which had highly competitive house races where the Republicans only barely missed out on winning their delegations.