US House Redistricting: Oklahoma

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What's the point of slicing off part of Oklahoma county then tacking on those rural counties to the east?

I don't know, but its certainly not for partisanship.  That part of OK county is actually more conservative than the rest of it (being fairly white suburbs).  Also remember that OKC stretches into Cleveland county, which is already in the 4th district, so its not a separate split of OKC.

Also those counties to the east aren't really rural as much as they are OKC suburbs.

[Dgov]

Is it possible to draw an Obama seat in West Virginia? I doubt it is without splitting counties, and even with county splits it'd be tricky.

WV is not all that bad actually, most of the South-Central part of the State is 50/50 and the Republican lean comes from the parts on the edges of the state.  Obama only lost Kanawha county (Charleston) by about 400 votes, and that's 300,000 people right there, take in a couple of the neighboring counties that were also about 50/50 and you probably can draw an Obama district that looks relatively compact.