Do the Congressmen have to run in the district they live in for the purposes of this challenge? If so, we can just draw Marcia Fudge out of here district and someone else would have to win. If not, it would be almost impossible since there are too many prominent Congressmen in staunchly partisan areas. For example, if there is any Republican district in Butler County, OH, you can bet John Boehner will win it, and it's too big to put in a Democratic district without making all the surrounding incuments safe, unless you draw something tortured like attaching it to Columbus.
I agree. You can target some number of them, but in a state with large partisan areas and the ability to represent areas away from one's home, it become impossible to get them all. For example, a lot of the IL plan was drawn as an anti-GOP-incumbent map. Kinzinger was placed in JJJ's CD, but ran against Manzullo instead insuring one would be eliminated. Walsh and Hultgren were targeted for a primary against each other, but Walsh opted to run in his relocated, now Dem-leaning IL-8 instead. A non-partisan map could have put pressure on a couple of Dems as well, but even getting half into trouble would be hard.
