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Brad Van Arnum's avatar

"Basically, this map anticipated a red wave that would carry all the close districts. But in the end, the wave was no more than a mist. Democrats won in the 3rd and 13th districts by 5 points. The resulting delegation, 10 Republicans and 5 Democrats, is only one seat more than the Ohio constitution would mandate."

Great article, and I'm still reading through it right now, but I believe there was a small mistake in the excerpt above. The two districts that Democrats won last week in Ohio by 5 points were the 1st and 13th. The 3rd district is the Columbus seat that is very blue.

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Morgan's avatar

I think that Arizona also falls into the "petite gerrymander" territory. In a pretty evenly divided state, the 5D/4R Congressional delegation went to 6R/3D. And in particular CD2 was adjusted enough to take out Rep. O'Halleran, a pretty popular Congressman. Election deniers largely lost at the statewide level, but given the new boundaries this was not true for the Congressional delegation.

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