App to Redraw the States and Change the Electoral Map

[Torie]

My idea for superstates was that they would be casting their electors as a bloc, much like the NPVIC proposes, but only within each regional superstate. They keep their full electors by state, so the app would have to be adjusted to put back the electors from the senators. Here's what I get, following TimTurner's lead, though I'll leave it to anyone else who wants to fill in the app.

59: HI+CA
59: AK+WA+OR+NV+ID+UT+MT+WY+CO+ND+SD
61: AZ+NM+TX+OK
57: KS+NE+MN+IA+MO+IL
60: WI+MI+IN+OH+WV
58: AR+LA+MS+AL+FL
58: KY+TN+GA+SC+NC
63: PA+NJ+DE+MD+DC+VA
62: NY+CT+RI+MA+VT+NH+ME

It looks like the Pubs would have 5 of the nine regions on lockdown, you partisan hack you.

[Torie]

My idea for superstates was that they would be casting their electors as a bloc, much like the NPVIC proposes, but only within each regional superstate. They keep their full electors by state, so the app would have to be adjusted to put back the electors from the senators. Here's what I get, following TimTurner's lead, though I'll leave it to anyone else who wants to fill in the app.

59: HI+CA
59: AK+WA+OR+NV+ID+UT+MT+WY+CO+ND+SD
61: AZ+NM+TX+OK
57: KS+NE+MN+IA+MO+IL
60: WI+MI+IN+OH+WV
58: AR+LA+MS+AL+FL
58: KY+TN+GA+SC+NC
63: PA+NJ+DE+MD+DC+VA
62: NY+CT+RI+MA+VT+NH+ME

It looks like the Pubs would have 5 of the nine regions on lockdown, you partisan hack you.

I could swap MN for IN which would improve the range by 1 at the cost of 1 in erosity. But I don't know about lockdown. Obama won the red Great Lakes superstate both times including IN, and Trump would win the one with the MN swap.

The blue Northwest region is no walk in the park for the Pubs either. Romney only won it by 1.6% with less than 50% of the total vote and Trump won by half that margin. Fair and balanced superstates is what I say.

Another tidbit: If I swap MN for IN, then Obama loses the IL superstate in 2012. I guess that's the more impressive Pub gerrymander. BTW Trump wins the IL superstate with or without the swap. Either way that's a swing superstate, too.

What is the Trump margin in the NW region if you add the McMullin votes to his total (which voters would ordinarily vote Pub)?