The Brad Miller Thread (AKA Draw your own CD)

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Can somebody draw a district for my mother, a Rush Holt-ish technocratic Democrat, who lives in Bordentown City, New Jersey and works in Trenton? She'd like a Mercer County-centred district that includes as many Democratic parts of northern Burlington County as can be shoved into it and goes up into Hunterdon (as opposed to Somerset/Middlesex/Monmouth) if that's not enough population. Basically, a Likely-D (CPVI preferably above 6 or 7 but she doesn't want an outright Dem pack) middle-Delaware River district. Both of us are also interested in seeing how a Republican pack in South Jersey would turn out.

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I think she might prefer to lose some stuff south of Rancocas Creek and gain a bit in lower Hunterdon. If we're drawing her district along with yours and everybody else's, drawing her out lower along the river, basically just from Trenton on down, should be fine. She'd prefer some of the Princeton area but as long as it has Trenton/Bordentown/maybe Lawrenceville, which would be her hypothetical base, she should be fine.

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Inconveniences me a lot, but as long as I can do fine in Dover/Toms River, I don't need to worry about a primary. I've lost about 2/3 of my original district though.

What's the CPVI on that Mercer/Burlington CD?

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Inconveniences me a lot, but as long as I can do fine in Dover/Toms River, I don't need to worry about a primary. I've lost about 2/3 of my original district though.

What's the CPVI on that Mercer/Burlington CD?

61.4% Obama. Leaves room for 1 Dem district and 1 GOP district to the South.

Nice. I'm surprised you can put in all of Burlington without getting that percentage down, but with a little bit of Camden in too, it comes together quite beautifully. Well done.

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It looks like some sort of animal.

Maybe a buffalo?