All that angst about keeping KSU in CD 2, and yet in the end the court takes it out. Given that it wasn't unreasonable for the court to do so, I remain amazed at the recalcitrance of the legislative leaders to avoid this.
They do get the award for the redistricting clowns of the nation. However remember, if the conservatives take control of the State Senate, they can redraw the maps next year, which may have been their game, which would not be the case if they signed off on some map. As to the business of the state senate districts, why can't the conservatives who want to primary the moderates, just move into the targeted districts by moving a few blocks (at least that is the case in one instance)? What is the big deal? That bit seems much ado about nothing.
Four districts with four incumbents and four challengers all living within the districts. After redistricting, 100% of the incumbents remain in their districts, while 50% of the challengers were gerrymandered out of their districts. I wonder if Muon2 can model the statistical probability of that happening by random chance. Personally, it reeks of a political decision to split the difference between one map that gerrymandered no challengers and another that gerrymandered four challengers.
