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 the actual, horrific looking GOP gerrymander that whittled us down to just 5 seats to their 13, this map reverses that ratio. While it's clearly gerrymandered, none of the districts comes remotely close to being as ugly as the actual 7th district, among others. Again, keep in mind that I'm relying on the partisan average rather than Obama numbers because Obama underperforms local Dems significantly in southwestern Pennsylvania and overperforms considerably in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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