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caraher

(6,276 posts)
22. There was a lawsuit in PA
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 01:55 AM
Aug 2018

As BumRushDaShow said, there are some newly-redrawn districts as a result.

It’s official: Pennsylvania will get a new US House of Representatives map for 2018, replacing an old map the state’s supreme court struck down as a Republican partisan gerrymander. A last-ditch effort from the state GOP to block the map failed Monday, as the US Supreme Court declined to intervene in the matter.

The new map is positively fantastic news for Democrats in their effort to take back the House this fall. “Democrats get everything they could want,” the New York Times’s Nate Cohn tweeted when he first saw the map. “With few exceptions it’s Democrats’ dream come true,” the Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman tweeted. “GOP not going to like this at all.”


from Vox

The map changed from this (“the gerrymander of the decade”)



to this

Or Johnny2X2X Aug 2018 #1
Those 43 seats are already occupied by republicans, not deep blue districts. But the person.. George II Aug 2018 #5
But BumRushDaShow Aug 2018 #10
I thought the last redistricting was several years ago... George II Aug 2018 #20
There was a lawsuit in PA caraher Aug 2018 #22
What caraher said... BumRushDaShow Aug 2018 #23
The day of reckoning is coming dalton99a Aug 2018 #2
Yes - the Red Exodus NewJeffCT Aug 2018 #3
O'Connor is running again in November so may not be a loss yet AlexSFCA Aug 2018 #8
Again it is nice to have a vacant seat but this will not win the race with GOTV Gothmog Aug 2018 #17
agreed - it's all about GOTV now. NewJeffCT Aug 2018 #18
Political polling analyst claims the GOP exodus is a much larger story than potential Democratic tak Gothmog Aug 2018 #4
Sounds like sour grapes to me FakeNoose Aug 2018 #6
I'm okay with the M$M under reporting on this. I like to walk softly, but carry a big stick. Boom! iluvtennis Aug 2018 #7
Vote republicans into obscurity. I fear, however, it will take a crisis like Katrina or an epic Pepsidog Aug 2018 #9
We had worse than Katrina in PR this year. Gore1FL Aug 2018 #19
True Pepsidog Aug 2018 #21
Perhaps the difference in voter turn out in some of the recent elections isn't just measuring salin Aug 2018 #11
I assumed they were part of the same trend. aikoaiko Aug 2018 #12
"They could be caught being cautious in the wrong direction." Tiggeroshii Aug 2018 #13
Well...let's not get overconfident. Everybody on here needs to vote, and certainly PatrickforO Aug 2018 #14
Having a vacant seat is helpful but not dispositive Gothmog Aug 2018 #16
K&R Scurrilous Aug 2018 #15
Getting near to 4 dozen repug incumbent quitters. rec, thanks, Nt Mc Mike Aug 2018 #24
Just gotta say: Vote like the wave depends on YOU! Beartracks Aug 2018 #25
Without good candidates and GOTV, there will be no wave Gothmog Aug 2018 #26
In case it must be said... Beartracks Aug 2018 #27
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