It just seems like it's convoluted for the sake of being convoluted.
Yeah...I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect this map may just end up hurting them with republican-leaning and Republican-trending Independents, canceling out any marginal gains from such an unnecessarily covoluted map. The NC Republicans and Illinois Democrats can probably get away with their monstronsities better than political parties in a long-time swing-state like Ohio. Then again, their Republican neighbors in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania didn't seem to suffer a noticable backlash....
