New York Congressional Map w/o Hinchey

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Wednesday January 18, 2012 · 7:28 PM PST

2012/01/18 · 19:28

This is a map that could be passed if the legislature can agree on a map. Such a map would have to be mostly clean, because otherwise Gov. Cuomo would not sign it. The map leaves most incumbents as is, and eliminates Rep. Turner downstate and Rep. Hinchey’s district upstate. These are both D+ PVI districts, so the remainders had to be distributed carefully. This results in similar but slightly more Democratic districts for Hayworth and Gibson. The earmuffs was also dismantled, which gave areas of downtown Buffalo to Rep. Hochul. Considering we are eliminating two Democratic PVI seats in this exercise, I thought that was appropriate as well.

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Tuesday November 22, 2011 · 10:03 AM PST

2011/11/22 · 10:03

I decided to sketch out what I thought would constitute a Republican map, but under the FDF amendments. The map does attempt to keep counties whole, not cross county lines unnecessarily, and tries keep all Republicans in R+4/R+5 districts where possible.

Here is the overview, and we wil go to the Miami area last, where there is contention over Alcee Hastings' district.

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Sunday November 20, 2011 · 12:04 PM PST

2011/11/20 · 12:04

This diary was to see if one can draw 7 VRA districts in South Texas - and therefore whether the DOJ's lawsuit has the potential for victory. I say the answer is yes. The only way to do this is to add another Fajita strip (to avoid a packing of a 85 % Hispanic district) and cutting up Bexar County carefully (it is messy though in the current map as well). I tried to keep the hispanic percentage of each district as close as possible to the current existing one. There are some slight population deviations, but that can be fixed with splitting of precincts and wouldn't change the underlying demographic data. I did this pretty quick but tried to keep counties/cities together (second of course to getting those 7 VRA seats).

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Wednesday October 19, 2011 · 10:18 AM PDT

2011/10/19 · 10:18

I am sure many of you saw the Globe article about redistricting.
(http://www.boston.com/... ) Basically, it said they would combine Olver and McGovern's districts and then create a Cape, Island, Fall River, New Bedford District which either Keating will move to or Frank will move to. Who moves there basically depends on what Keating does, because as Norfolk DA before, he has a home in two districts. If he chooses to run there, Lynch takes the Quincy/Southie district and Frank stays in Newton. If Frank moves down to the Coast, Keating flips over to his original home in Sharon and takes the Norfolk based district. There isn't election data for Mass, but I tried to solidify each district as much as possible, but I suppose both the Lynch district and the Newton/West Norfolk districts could be competitive, but I am not sure. Here are some maps:

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Monday June 06, 2011 · 7:41 PM PDT

2011/06/06 · 19:41

Heres my map. It eliminates Gibson who has the oddest district in NY by shape and he gets split every which way. I figured also reason to elim Gibson was why would Dems use their one elimination card on Buerkle when she will probably lose anyway. This map is under the assumption that the legislature draws a map, that they would clear with Cuomo who would agree because of its fairness and cleanliness. That way the leg can take care of keeping incumbents in districts and cuomo gets to have his clean fair districts otherwise. Ackerman and Weiner get eliminated into fair fight district downstate. I couldnt keep Meeks district 50 % black no matter how hard I tried. Got Velasquez up to 50 % hispanic though, and Weiner/Ackerman district has a huge asian percentage from Flushing. It could have been even neater if I compacted Nadler and Maloney into one Manhattan district and then made a brand new incumbent less Brooklyn one.

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