This diary presents partisan numbers for the redistricting map floated by the Republicans in the Detroit News earlier this week. I don't typically write such short diaries, but with Michigan numbers now in Dave's App and the digests related to the map pretty far down the main page, I wasn't sure where else to do this.
I roughly sketched out the map in Dave's App. My district populations ended up +/- 5000 from ideal. The Detroit, Sterling Heights, and West Bloomfield city splits and the Saginaw and Grand Rapids area splits were the most difficult to guess from the News' map. For what it's worth, I interpreted the Grand Rapids area split as putting Kentwood, Grandville, Wyoming, and Walker into MI-02, with the rest of Kent in MI-03.
The last column indicates whether the new district is more or less Republican than the equivalent old district. I treated Peter's district as disappeared, and so compared Levin's new district to his old one and Dingell's new district to his old one, regardless of district numbers. The only truly relevant swing there is MI-11, a PVI-EVEN district now that becomes 4 points more McCain-friendly.
Interestingly, this map actually makes it so that McCain won fewer districts than he did before. MI-03 is swapped from a narrow McCain plurality to a narrow Obama one.
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