US House Redistricting: Washington

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I think the new district will be a mix of Thurston and Pierce. The 8th probably shrinks into King (or will this be the new district and Reichert gets Pierce and Thurston?), but Auburn should still be in the new district. It could be a relatively safer district for Reichert.

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Why did the 8th need to go into Snohomish? Keep it within King county and put the exurban parts of Snoho in the 2nd which are in the 8th as you have drawn it, and the 1st picks up Everett and surroundings.

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^^^



Index and Leavenworth are kind of cherrypicking the most similar East/West sides of that district.  It's more like Google Bellevue and then East Wenatchee...

Google is in the 1st and 7th.  East Wenatchee is attracting (Seattle suburban) Eastsiders.  Yahoo and Microsoft have both set up their massive data centers nearby to take advantage of cheap hydro electric power.   

I am sorry, but the notion that people commute over the Snoqualmie pass is ridiculous. The growth over the mountains may be driven by west siders, but they aren't commuting over the cascades every morning.

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I am sorry, but the notion that people commute over the Snoqualmie pass is ridiculous. The growth over the mountains may be driven by west siders, but they aren't commuting over the cascades every morning.

There are traffic cameras on the pass.  It's your job to check it out tomorrow morning and afternoon.

Past the King county line presumably?

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I am sorry, but the notion that people commute over the  is ridiculous. The growth over the mountains may be driven by west siders, but they aren't commuting over the cascades every morning.

There are traffic cameras on the pass.  It's your job to check it out tomorrow morning and afternoon.

Past the King county line presumably?

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/passes/camera.aspx

LOL the road is entirely empty (note the time stamp on this post). One hell of a commute Jim.

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Here's a Democratic gerrymander of Western Washington (the rest of the map would just be a pubbie pack).




The most marginal district would be the 2nd which is only 52-48 Dem in 2010 as well as CD-1 and 10 which are about 54% Dem. The rest are safe Democratic districts.

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Hmm, maybe the complaining about Arizona and definitely about California will stop now. That 1st district is ridiculous. That being said the rest of the map is ok. The Arizona map looks to be drawn to help a Phoenix area Democrat, and this map seems to have been drawn to help a Republican in the Bellingham area. The California map doesn't have anything that ridiculous that can't be explained by VRA constraints. And the Arizona district cannot be explained by the VRA.