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 state's districts after 2012. If local Dems had been wiser they wouldn't have tried to win 3 districts and would have settled on a safe 2-2 split, which I have drawn here. Furthermore, Arkansas does not have have precinct level partisan data, but the state until recently did not split counties which makes partisan map-making much easier. All districts are within 1% of the ideal population target and the races I used were 2000, 2004, and 2008 presidential, as well as the Senate, Lt. Gov., SOS races from 2010.
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