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Pennsylvania

BumRushDaShow

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21. It's funny that I didn't even look at the legend and what it represented

Reply to DeminPennswoods (Reply #20)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 06:20 AM

Feb 2018

until you mentioned it. I assumed "lights from space" but it's population dots on a black background.

Hopefully this will underscore to people (including DUers) that although it looks severe when you color the state "red" in large swaths of land and "blue" around the state border urban areas, those large red swaths are literally EMPTY of people. From one of the stats that I found, I think it was 36 of the 67 PA counties that have less than 100,000 people each and 3 of those 36 have <10,000 total.

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BREAKING: PA Supreme Court issues new map [View all] BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 OP

The new map graphic DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #1

Thanks! BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #2

I was just going to post the PG link DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #5

Looks pretty good to me DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #3

From my twitter feed Gothmog Feb 2018 #4

Oh, Crud! MyOwnPeace Feb 2018 #6

Where are these districts that are supposed to benefit democrats? femmocrat Feb 2018 #7

Dems will have a chance now DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #8

I found that the 4 counties in the new PA-14 BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #11

And the GOP is vowing court action to stop it. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2018 #9

Yup BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #10

Some interesting analysis has been going regarding potentials for this map BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #12

No third party/independent votes considered in these stats FakeNoose Feb 2018 #14

Well statistically BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #15

Sam Wang and Princeton Consortium response to the map BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #13

How about that, our "uneducated guesses" were pretty close DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #16

Well what happened was BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #17

Yep, LV and Lancaster DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #18

I keep forgetting about Altoona! BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #19

It's a bit jarring to look at a couple of the CDs and DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #20

It's funny that I didn't even look at the legend and what it represented BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #21

Old CD 5 contains the Allegheny Natl Forest DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #22

You can see a dark strip going from NW to SE in Philly BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #23

Once travelling across the PA Tpk, traffic was forced to detour DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #24

That sounded like when me and my sis took my niece to Crystal Cave BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #25

Predictably, the Post-Gazette editorial team sided DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #26

Links to history of PA redistricting lawsuits wrt 2010 map DeminPennswoods Feb 2018 #27