Reply #22: Kuchinich represents Cleveland [View All]

Most likely the GOP will concede two seats there while making the other surrounding suburban districts more Republican. They will probably concede a seat or two in Cleveland and try to tinker with the suburban districts.

In Eastern Ohio they will probably make one super-heavily Democratic district and try to hurt the other incumbents. They would probably take crucial precincts away from Strickland and give them to one or two Democrats.

The one truly at risk, as I see it, is Strickland, who represents SE Ohio. That area is thinly populated and thus they could probably cut up the district in several pieces, shifting crucial precincts to the North and to the West.

Basically what they could do to him is force him to run in a district that includes the Republican strongholds in Cincinatti's suburbs and exurbs, while shifting the crucial Northern precincts up into the safe Democratic seats of Eastern Ohio.

That's who probably has the most to lose.