2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Florida

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Interesting.  Lots of surprises this year (KS and LA R gerrymanders likely going through over Dem vetoes, OH and NC getting blocked in court, FL, TX, and GA all being quite tame vs. expectations).

I really don't see how TX is tame.  They took NINE vulnerable districts and made them all safer including eight of them into double digit Trump districts.  Maybe, the GOP could have made one more S. Texas seat vulnerable, but there really wasn't much they could do to go after Dem seats without sacrificing the ability to make their own seats safer.

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Here is what I don't get. If no map is passed, the court draws a map. Why would DeSantis want that? As to the internecine Pub battle of the maps, they are not that much different, so why is DeSantis freaking out over not that much? I don't get that either. Does DeSantis have psychological problems? That is meant as a serious rather than tendentious question. The man genuinely puzzles me.

Well yes, but I would think the bigger issue here is he is an egomaniac. 

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Lot of people seem to be avoiding the Occam's Razor explanation here, which is that DeSantis wants as many Republican seats as possible.

Lol this was obviously always the answer, just Dems can’t conceive of such a boring scenario as it allows no space for DeSantis to be a supervillain.

I don't think anyone is denying that part.  It is, however quite unusual to see a Governor fight his own party to gerrymander even harder at the risk of getting neither gerrymander. 

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Lot of people seem to be avoiding the Occam's Razor explanation here, which is that DeSantis wants as many Republican seats as possible.

Lol this was obviously always the answer, just Dems can’t conceive of such a boring scenario as it allows no space for DeSantis to be a supervillain.

I would agree probably stupid, but he could potentially be thinking it could be a win-win.  if he gets his map he gets more seats for the GOP in Florida.  If it gets thrown out by the courts, he can scream the always favorite Republican tagline 'activist liberal Judges' as a campaign issue for 2024 (regardless of if the judges were liberal or not or how badly his map was in violation of the law)

Running the risk a court draws a map, and the Pubs lose more seats than the map the legislature passed. I don't think DeSantis is a supervillain (if it is not Putin or Trump or MTG or a few freaks like that I just don't go there), I just think he is being super stupid.