Darkwing Duck
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Should? Pfft. Having two from Salt Lake risks Democrats winning seats. Obviously Salt Lake has to be split up in fourths because that's somehow fairererer.
Re-drawing Districts
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Should? Pfft. Having two from Salt Lake risks Democrats winning seats. Obviously Salt Lake has to be split up in fourths because that's somehow fairererer.
Duck Rodgers
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My lines aren't certainly perfect, and I have no idea where the 600k people that live in the Ogden metro are counted, but that's what I was going for in 4. That should encompass the Ogden metro which would give it enough people and a couple of outliers for around 700k.
TheMulletMutilator
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Unfortunately redistricting has been used for the advantage of both parties and it is never fair.
Duck Rodgers
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Not the case, the suburbs are a far different voting demographic than the city proper. And the city proper only has about 200 k so you would have to throw the whole thing into one district.
I was wrong. My knowledge of Utah geography isn't what I think it is sometimes. For some reason I had it in my head that Ogden was in Box Elder County.
This is what happens when you're trying to recall lessons from fifth grade.
Duck Rodgers
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In Japan, they expect you to live with your parents. I know enough people in America that do so too so I would think the stereotype is fading. I certainly don't consider it any cooler that some dude is living in a closet space in New York thinking he is the man.
TheMulletMutilator
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We could always talk about the moon landing conspiracy....
Duck Rodgers
Well-Known Member
Think about it though. I put Saint George Metro with a good portion of Utah County. Saint George has the potential to be very big and fairly liberal someday, maybe even in the next 10 year period depending how the economy bounces back. So I would be risking something there as far as Red votes go, and the Western Salt Lake portion the same.
SL county will need to be split, obviously, but the direction in which it will split will make a huge difference. Split it north/south and you'll have a pretty clear dem district and repub district. Go east/west, and you might have two 50/50s, which would certainly make things interesting.
I wish we could have an independent committee that would re-district based only on geographic and population-based considerations, completely ignoring partisan demographics.
In the end, I'd really just like to not be in Trout's district.
I wish we could have an independent committee that would re-district based only on geographic and population-based considerations, completely ignoring partisan demographics.
In the end, I'd really just like to not be in Trout's district.
Making each district close to 43% Democratic (assume SLC is strongly Democratic and everywhere strongly Republican) is a an all-or-nothing option. Most of the time you win all the seats, but when elections go really badly for the Republicans, you win none of them.