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Originally Posted by Crawford
NY got hammered on redistricting, as the Dems tried to pull a GOP, and a judge overturned the gerrymandered map weeks before the election.
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yeah, that does seem to be a big part of it in NYS's case.
IL dems pulled a big redistricting gerymander too, but unlike NYS, they got away with it, making 14 of IL's 17 house district's blue in the 2022 election.
that makes IL's house delgation 82% blue, the bluest house delegation of any large state.
pretty much everywhere in the state where people outnumber corn now has a blue house rep.
but it's a bit of a dangerous game too because many of those fringe districts were won on some razor thin margins. if the national GOP ever manages to get less trumpy, and starts appealing once again to its former suburban base, many of those districts could
VERY EASILY flip the other way.
the light blue districts on the map below were specifically drawn to give dems a very narrow edge in all of them, amplifying more urban-oriented voices in suburban Chicagoland, and in downstate urban areas like Rockford, quad cities, Peoria, Champaign, Springfield, the metro east, etc.
Source: wikipedia