US House Redistricting: Indiana

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I think his main point was about your ripping apart of the Indianapolis metro, which is a really obvious gerrymander.

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Here's my map of Indiana. It destroys Donnelly's district and puts him into a district with Stutzman. It also prevents a Baron Hill comeback by combining Bloomington with Indianapolis exurbs instead of the southern edge of the state. Pence and Young switch district numbers (Pence, who lives in Bartholomew County, is now in IN-09, and Young, who lives in Monroe County, is now in IN-06), and IN-03 is an open but very GOP seat. Ellsworth's district is mostly unchanged, so he maybe could mount a comeback, but otherwise I think this is what the Indiana GOP will do.

I'm assuming the white suburbs in Lake County (in IN-04) are mostly marginal or GOP-leaning; the map might need some modification if they are not.

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Young lives in Bloomington, Torie. You've cut him out of his district and given it to Pence.

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Pretty sure Burton lives on the north side of Marion County, although I agree that the split of Marion is odd (isolates some Republican areas in the south while taking in some marginal-to-Democratic areas on the north side).

About what I expected, though. A little less aggressive in going after Donnelly, but that by that much.

And, Torie, this is about what you should be expecting. Legislatures are generally speaking not willing to rip apart cities and counties willy-nilly, and there are strong pressures other than partisanship that usually prevent them from doing so.

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Ohio is not extreme. They won't come close to your map. Pennsylvania is pretty extreme but incompetent in their extreme gerrymandering.

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Ohio is not extreme. They won't come close to your map. Pennsylvania is pretty extreme but incompetent in their extreme gerrymandering.

Well I am  0 for 1 so far, but Ohio has imperatives that Indiana does not, including a lot of vulnerable incumbent Pubbie butt being on the line.

Pence was bounced from his home as well, in IN-06. I guess he is running for governor. In fact IN-06 looks like a marginal CD now since it has Monroe County in it, with only one and a half heavily GOP suburban Indianapolis counties in it (not enough), before wandering pointlessly to the Ohio River. It just doesn't make any sense at all.

Pence lives in Bartholomew County, which is still in IN-06.

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Pence was bounced from his home as well, in IN-06. I guess he is running for governor. In fact IN-06 looks like a marginal CD now since it has Monroe County in it, with only one and a half heavily GOP suburban Indianapolis counties in it (not enough), before wandering pointlessly to the Ohio River. It just doesn't make any sense at all.

It picks up some Republican suburbs of Louisville down at the Ohio River.

You both seem to be very confused. Pence's seat, IN-06, is the one in the SE corner of the state. It contains neither Bloomington/Monroe County nor any Louisville suburbs and is overall almost certainly the most Republican district on the map. (It's the only one to contain no counties that voted for Obama.)

IN-09 contains both and is Young's seat--and it has to contain Bloomington because Young lives there (and is still around R+6 or so, maybe winnable for Baron Hill if he runs again but probably not).