US House Redistricting: Utah

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

He would never get elected in the dark gray district that includes Utah County. I'd say the first to run in the Salt Lake City district.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No they haven't. Summit County is currently in UT-01. Utah was actually drawn logically pre-2002, with one district for the SLC area and the rest of the state split in half.

Tooele County has a bit of a Democratic tradition and voted Democratic for President as recently as 1996, so that part is particularly harsh for someone like Matheson. I'm surprised the GOP just didn't give him a chunk of Provo or something. I suppose that part of the state has too much influence and doesn't want to be that split up.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Roll Call came up with the numbers for the proposed map:

UT-01: McCain: 67; Bush: 76
UT-02: McCain: 58; Bush 67
UT-03: McCain: 67; Bush: 76
UT-04: McCain: 56; Bush: 66

Which of UT-2 and UT-4 is better for Matheson? It's hard to tell the population distribution by looking at the land area because of the concentration of the population in western states.

UT-4 not only has downtown SLC but the only rural areas remaining in Utah that still are willing to vote for Democrats besides the ski and Sundance country.