Ohio redistricting thread

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The Republicans drew extremely partisan maps,  they removed any seats they could that would be tossup or lean D, and packed Democrats whenever they could. 

https://twitter.com/WDMelections/status/1436097356819218434

I'd say this should be a very easy court case to make that the maps were drawn to favor a political party.

So are all 33 Biden House seats safe Dem?

Doubt it. There are probably a couple seats in the suburbs of Cincy and Columbus that are more Republican downballot.

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This Breitbart article claims that an "anonymous GOP source" has seen a map that Gov. DeWine plans to introduce next week. Supposedly, Jim Jordan's district gets pulled into Columbus which would threaten him, and Mike Turner is put into the same district as Warren Davidson.

Of course, this article really serves as another "this Republican secretly wants to help Pelosi let's vote for his MAGA challenger" rally piece, so I doubt it is accurate at all, but such a map would be interesting to say the least.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/01/rigged-ohios-dewine-others-consider-redistricting-map-that-would-eliminate-jim-jordans-district-solidify-pelosis-majority/

That alone should make anyone take this with a huge grain of salt.

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So if this map does get struck down by the State Supreme Court, who redraws it? Do they do it themselves or does it go back to the legislature?

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https://twitter.com/OHSupremeCourt/status/1475504301212680202

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Might have been asked, but when are we expecting a verdict?

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Frankly, if a state Supreme Court strikes down a map, they should be required to draw a replacement.

None of this crap.

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So what would the map look like if it was independently-drawn and didn’t take incumbent demands into account?

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Also it's not as bad as Wisconsin, but Ohio geography isn't very good for Democrats.

I edited Torie's map a bit: https://davesredistricting.org/join/f960d5b4-03e5-4a82-aeba-edf33713423d

There are three safe Dem seats (one in each of the Cs), plus four swing seats. If my map had been in place last year, Democrats would have likely walked away with six and possibly seven out of 15 seats. Not bad in a state that trended very hard against them in recent year.

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OH-01 voted for Biden by 8.5 points. Would be pretty hackish to think R would be favored in that seat, although I guess those that did were probably expecting a red wave.

I think that's exactly why people thought Chabot was favored.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.  

He can carpetbag to OH-15 in any event. Much of his district is already in it. Or OH-06, and Johnson can move to the northern part of his existing district.

Johnson lives way down in Marietta and represents much of OH-6 already, he ain’t moving.  And if we say OH-15 belongs to Balderson then you’ve drawn out Carey who has even more pull than Balderson.

I’m already assuming Davidson and Weinstrup are fine carpetbagging in your latest map, lest you think I am utterly without mercy

Why would Carey have more pull than Balderson?

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Now watch the nY high court side with the gop lol

Pretty gross to see red avatars rooting for disgusting gerrymander. You are an opponent of democracy.

The NY map is extremely fair. The initial one was a disgusting gerrymander.