US House Redistricting: Washington

[Fuzzybigfoot]

I added an Atlas-style 1980s CD map of Washington to the wiki, if anyone is curious. I can't find the original I drew it based off of, though... I also added Dave's 1990s and 2000s maps (with the minor edit of properly placing Tacoma in the 6th on the 90s edition).

Here's the 1970's version I drew up, if you want it. 

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Welcome aboard!   

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Here's my plan:



1st District:  54.8% Democrat, 45.2% Republican
2nd District:  51.1% Democrat, 48.9% Republican
3rd District:  55.4% Republican, 44.6% Democrat
4th District:  66.2% Republican, 33.8% Democrat
5th District:  58.2% Republican, 41.2% Democrat
6th District:  53.1% Democrat, 46.9% Republican
7th District:  81.4% Democrat, 18.6% Republican
8th District:  52.4% Democrat, 47.6% Republican
9th District:  52.9% Democrat, 47.1% Republican
10th District:  51.3% Democrat, 48.7% Republican

It's very simular to bgwah's ideal map, but with Larsen and possibly Smith in safer districts.  The 10th is only tilting Dem.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhalem,_Washington

route 20 is only open in the summer....

While true, the communities it connects are basically ski/summer homes of the Seattle wealthy. They are forced to take US-2 in the winter and drive up north, but in the summer/fall, N. Cascades is way faster. So... I guess in that sense they are "communities of interest", but I doubt that makes up for 2 county splits.

The average length its open is April 20-Nov 26

If they're just summer/ski homes of people who normally live in Seattle, then surely those folks would be registered in the Seattle area, too? Seems like kind of a flimsy reason to put what would be some genuine Eastern Washingtonians in a Western district.

lol  I just felt like saving those poor souls from being part of the fifth. 

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Ftw.

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What is this I don't even...

I know right?  I would consider shooting myself if these maps ever became the real thing.  It's a good thing they probably won't. 

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I tried clicking on Ceis's presentation, but it gave me Foster's instead. 

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@#$!@#$@!

Every last one of them includes a trans-cascade I-90 district. I wonder what Reichert bribed them with to get this result. Though I will say that Herrera-Beutler is getting a bit shafted (although she loses Olympia from all of the plans as well which means that she should be safe save for wave elections)

I think almost the maps are pointing to a 6-4 D advantage, which instead really should be 6-3-1 (D, R, tossup).

So here comes the question:
Which of these horrible monstrosities would you choose if a gun was pointed at your head?

Now that I found access to it, probably Ceis's plan.

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I pitty Slate Gordon.  That senior center he's in must be really boring, or else he wouldn't go to all that trouble just to f**k up our congressional districts.


Edit:  No direspect to old people. 

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LD maps sux

Yeah, where have you been? 

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Here's the map, redrawn by me.

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Does anyone have the Presidential numbers for each new district?