Pennsylvania Deplorable
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« on: November 18, 2017, 08:23:06 PM » |
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The districts in the Philly suburbs are ridiculously gerrymandered and I've long felt that the GOP should simply concede one more district to the dems in southeast PA. On the other hand, PA 17 was drawn as a democrat vote sink and Trump still won it in 2016. A fairly drawn PA 17 would probably have to include all of Luzcerne and Lackawanna counties while Easton is given back to Lehigh Valley based PA 15. If this were the case, the district would lean R. The truth is that, as a result of democrats being so concentrated in Philly, it would take an extreme gerrymander to even have 7 democrat districts out of 18. PA will lose a district after the 2020 census anyway (maybe even two) so this seems like a waste of time for one or two elections at most.
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