What Arkansas Dems Should Have Drawn: A Solid 2-2
Democrats controlled the redistricting process in Arkansas during the most recent round of apportionment, but unfortunately passed a map that is likely to lead to Republicans holding all 4 of the...
View ArticleHow a Court or Commission Might Draw North Carolina
Congressional redistricting in North Carolina falls exclusively to the legislature which after the 2010 elections flipped to Republicans for the first time in the modern era. Unfortunately, this means...
View ArticleWhat if Redistricting Had Taken Place After 2008? - Part 1
Redistricting in the US takes place after each decennial census and impacts the congressional district lines that will be used for the 2012 elections. Following their massive gains in the 2010...
View ArticleWhat if Redistricting Had Taken Place After 2008? - Part 2
This is part two of my diary series looking at what the effects of redistricting on the 2010 and 2012 house elections would have been had it taken place after 2008 instead of the 2010 elections. In...
View ArticleA Fair Michigan Congressional Map
Congressional redistricting in Michigan was controlled entirely by Republicans, which allowed them to draw a gerrymander aimed at protecting all of their seats and eliminating Gary Peters. Given how...
View ArticleMy Excel Table Template for Presenting DRA District Data
This is for all of you election nerds and DKErs who like to do your own redistricting hypotheticals using Dave's Redistricting App. Those of you familiar with my past redistricting diaries will notice...
View ArticleSawolf's US House of Representatives Race Ratings (with clickable map)
Now that redistricting is complete, I've had the chance to update my House of Representatives Race Ratings. These ratings, like DailyKos Elections' own, are based on the likelihood each party has of...
View Articlesawolf's US Senate Race Ratings
This is the second installment of my race ratings for the elections to the United States Senate this fall. You can find my ratings and analysis for the House of Representatives here. Since there are...
View ArticleWhat Would Redistricting Look Like Had Dems Won All Prior Close Races?
Redistricting in the United States took place in 2011 and 2012 following the midterms of 2010 where Republicans made historic gains across the nation. These gains left them well positioned to control...
View ArticleWhat if We Had Non-Gerrymandered Redistricting Nationwide?
Disclaimer - I am currently in the process of revising this article to incorporate actual election results from 2012 and to provide more research to support alternative maps. (January 2013)This...
View ArticlePolitical Geography, Part 1: The Northeast
This is the first of what will be a four part series looking at the political geography of the states in order to get a better idea of how each party does outside of just the presidential elections....
View ArticlePolitical Geography, Part 2: The Southeast
This is part two of my series looking at the political geography of elections at the state level. In it, I present maps and data for the average of statewide races from 2004 to present by county for...
View ArticlePolitical Geography, Part 3: The Midwest
This is part three of my series looking at the political geography of elections at the state level. In it, I present maps and data for the average of statewide races from 2004 to present by county for...
View ArticlePolitical Geography, Part 4: The West
This is the fourth and final part of my series looking at the political geography of elections at the state level. In it, I present maps and data for the average of statewide races from 2004 to...
View Articlesawolf's Final Race Ratings and Predictions for Pres, Gov, Senate, and House...
Welcome to the third and final edition of my race ratings for the 2012 elections! You can find my January and June versions for the House here and here, and the Senate here and here. As with the...
View ArticleAnother Compact 8-6 Georgia
Seeing as jnnca just posted a Cleanish 8-6 Georgia Map, I figured I'd dust off one of mine that had been lying around that is also 8-6 and "clean" but takes a bit of a different approach. This one...
View ArticleA Clean, Solid 7-0-1 Maryland
Several diarists here have shown that it's possible to get 8 Democratic seats out of Maryland, but due to parochial interests, Maryland Democrats instead drew a 7-1 map. This map cleans up the...
View ArticleDrawing a Democratic Pennsylvania 13-5
Since this week seems to be "dust off your old fantasy maps week" on DKE, I wanted to post this beauty I constructed using the state's partisan average of 2004-2008 statewide races as a guide. Unlike...
View ArticleHow Dems Helped Cost Ourselves the House: The Arkansas Dummymander
As many political junkies, Democrats, and liberal activists are well aware, Democrats won the popular vote for the House of Resentatives in this year's election, but thanks to gerrymandering only won...
View ArticleRepublicans STOLE the House! Here's What YOU Can DO to Fight Back!
By now you've probably heard that last November, American voters chose to give Democrats control of the presidency and both chambers of congress in this past election. Wait, both chambers? No,...
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