But it's coming. The flip of the state supreme court was a sea change. It's really ridiculous that it can be that way, when you think about it.
With a GOP legislature, a Democratic governor and a 4-3 Democratic supreme court, they may have somehow stumbled into fair maps. Sounds like a good time to get a bipartisan commission through, if anyone's trying.
will be modest in terms of becoming more favorable to Democrats. The scope of revision is limited by (a) the degree of "natural" gerrymandering due to Democrats being concnetrated in urban areas and (b) the court mandate which is (more or less) restricted to eliminating non-contiguous pieces of districts.
It will get things pretty close to even, which is really where things should be in Wisconsin.
But they will be slight and it will happen fair competition.
More competitive districts should help pull the GOP in Wisconsin back from the edge and should also result in less combative politics.
Here's the analysis I saw. Forget that it's from the Daily Kos, it's pretty straightforward as it's simply breaking down the 2020 presidential vote in the new districts.
Maybe I'm misreading it.
I don't think the congressional maps have been presented yet.
Sorry if I misunderstood.
But if you look at what was done in Pennsylvania, they certainly can be redrawn similarly in Wisconsin.
maps. I know a guy who's close to the process and I was passing along his impression of where it's going.
That Republicans have naturally gerrymandered themselves into rural areas.
It really comes down to how you move some lines in the inner suburbs of the cities there. But when I was a kid the legislature traded hands a lot and if anything the dem self gerrymandering in Milwaukee/Madison was worse.
For congressional elections it's nowhere near as. Big a deal as NY or Texas. You might flip one or two seats but the natural gerrymandering there is pretty strong.