WI State Assembly Redistricting

[lfromnj]

https://davesredistricting.org/join/9f025f89-0375-421c-9f19-61909408cb83

Heres my non partisan map for WI.

Hillary only won 38 districts and I doubt Biden did much better.

[lfromnj]

https://davesredistricting.org/join/9f025f89-0375-421c-9f19-61909408cb83

Heres my non partisan map for WI.

Hillary only won 38 districts and I doubt Biden did much better.

Have you taken into account nesting of HDs to form SDs?

No forgot about that, but just wanted to see how this would go. Not very good for WI d's overall as the WOW districts are still too red to be winnable  . Honestly you need to keep the old GOP gerrymander in WOW to help Ds out.

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/ChazNuttycombe/status/1331741779712991232

Lmao WI- Dems.

[lfromnj]

I count three districts on that Biden might've won (the Eau Claire, Green Bay and Appleton ones, actually possible the south Milwaukee one too) and it looks more like a mild gerrymander claiming to be a fair map.

The tweeter in that question is a left winger, The Eau Claire area outside of Eau Claire itself swung R. I think Biden still narrowly lost the Eau Claire district.

[lfromnj]

Yeah I'm interested in the Walker/Evers numbers for that. Evers at least won the Driftless seat.

Its not like WI D's are competent

They can't even win Clinton driftless seats.

Instead they spend 500k against Vos in a Mccain/ Trump +20 seat

Anyway the link has the map where you can see all numbers

Evers did do a decent bit better but anyway the problem for WI D's is they need to win the rurals but also the suburbs and the Fox River Valley seats. The GOP just needs to win 1-2 seats from all of those.

[lfromnj]

I'm somewhat new to this but it seems to me that a map that provides a deep structural advantage to one party is by definition not fair, regardless of whether the process is explicitly partisan or not. Under a FPTP system it seems like there's at least a solid argument to be made that a "fair" map is the one that enfranchises the most people i.e. one that represents the citizens of the state proportionally, regardless of how it looks or how it's drawn.

That means passing proportional rep if you actually want that but under FPTP/districts it would be absurd to make someone from Grant county be represented by some super liberal from Madison in the state assembly/senate. From a quick check through I can't see any major problems in his map but its just how it ended up. There's no nefarious intent or something there,  he just made the best map possible that makes each district have the most logical communities from his POV.

Again I did find it funny how you complained that Robin Vos nearly only gave Ds 2/8 seats when he actually meant to give 3/8.

[lfromnj]

I think Wisconsin's Republican geographic bias might be a little overstated. Take this fair map for example. It has 17 Evers districts and 16 Walker districts (although about 1/3 of each are within a couple percentage points.

That dudes map had like 14 evers districts.  The problem is the d coalition isn't gonna yield Ds more seats till Waukesha starts moving swing. And  although the Ozaukee district in his map is fine and the same as yours your NW milwaukee map is not good. Rather one of the suburban cities should paired with WOW just like Ozaukee goes with the Lake shore.

[lfromnj]

I've already drawn a state senate map. The only barrier at this state is state assembly.  I'll post both when I'm done with both.

Its actually easier to start with the state assembly, you can create your districts, then make a copy of your map and then just mash em together.

[lfromnj]

I've already drawn a state senate map. The only barrier at this state is state assembly.  I'll post both when I'm done with both.

Its actually easier to start with the state assembly, you can create your districts, then make a copy of your map and then just mash em together.

DRA lets you mash districts together?

Well if you start with the State assembly right?
You can make a copy of your state assembly map and then just combine them from 1-3 by unlocking each district, then 4-6 and keep going