Or does that just happen with every redistricting map in the south?

It’s totally unfair that the group who can ill afford to lose seats is stuck with 50% of the cuts. Typical Republican plan – hit the little guys so the big guys get off easy.

What’s that sarcasm tag again?

Is it wrong for me to find this race analogous to a bum fight?

put Sutton, Kucinich and Renacci in one district. it would be a swing district went for obama by just under 2%. Make Ryans district go from Youngstown, get skinng and pick up Akron. make Kaptur’s slimmer and stretch all the way to Cleveland. we could loose no one and they loose 2.

Ohio is a very important state. I feel that the Ohio legislature should have spent more time figuring out how to create a map that better represents the State of Ohio.

They are giving 1-2 seats to the Democrats. Shouldn’t they ask for some kind of favor before they provide that gift? It’s not like the Democrats who put out their map in Illinois will be returning the favor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/politics/24kucinich.html?pagewanted=all

Or is that really a post from The Onion?

That’s supposed to be the standard in redistricting, whether the Dems complain? The standard is: screw over your opponent as best as possible — you know, the standard that the Dems have.

Sounds to me like Moe is saying the Dems are happy, which means the Republican state legislators didn’t do their job and screw over Dems enough, as did the MO GOP the Dems.

The idea that it is possible for the GOP to lose *both* of Ohio’s two lost districts is inconceivable when the state legislature is overwhelmingly Republican, the Governor is Republican, and the state Supreme Court is Republican.

Oh well, the Republican leaning part of Cuyahoga County, the Cleveland West Shore is still stuck in a Democrat district, hanging off Toledo.

However, between here and Toledo across the Lake Erie Shore it is pretty conservative, other than Lorain (Vermillion, Port Clinton, Put-in-Bay, Sandusky). Wonder if we can flip this one.

Illinois lost one congressional seat from the reapportionment after the 2010 census.
Illinois democrats immediately salivated over drawing new boundaries to destroy as many Republican controlled districts as possible. The final map, signed into law by Gov Quinn on June 24 puts several GOP incumbents into districts where they will have to run against other Republicans, and others into districts which strongly favor Democrats.
Re-districting public hearings held prior to the release of the map were nothing more than “dog-and-pony” shows, while State dem’s conjured the map under the cover of darkness. Reportedly, the map was drawn without any input from Republicans or any consideration for the hours of testimony offered at public hearings.
The suit claims that the map is little more than an attempt to undo the results of the elections held in Nov 2010 and that the public had no chance to review the map.
Final deadline to have a redistricting plan in place is October 5th, 2011.
Already, one Republican Ron Stephens has decided to resign his post as State Representative due to the new boundaries pitting him against a fellow Republican.