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DeminPennswoods

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26. Predictably, the Post-Gazette editorial team sided
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 11:40 AM
Feb 2018

with the GOP argument that the Court ruling makes it so hard for people to know what district they are in.
This despite there being a whopping 4 counties split into different districts with only Butler being split 3 ways owing to Cranberry, which abuts New Sewickley/Freedom in Beaver County being in the new 17th. Otherwise every other county is completely contained in a new CD.

It's pretty easy to look at the map and figure out what your new district is.

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
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