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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:41 PM
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Congressional District Maps (**bookmark this!**)
Hey everybody, I found a great link on nationalatlas.gov that lists all the Congressional districts and has maps of each. Check it out ... pretty cool, eh!? So now when you hear about a hot race in the CA-48th (Steve Young) or the NY-29th (Eric Massa), you know where to get more info. Here is an example of my home state and district.

http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/congress.html#list





Enjoy! If anyone else has some cool links we should know about, please post em.

Cheers
-AlecBGreen
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MrMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:47 PM
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1. NJ-6
I never realized that my District was such a gerrymander.

(can't link it)
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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:54 PM
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4. thats not so bad


check out VA's 3rd



Now gee, I wonder why somebody lumped Richmond, Hampton, Newport News, Portsmouth, AND Norfolk all into one district...hmmm... :eyes:
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 09:27 PM
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8. wow. i thought congressional districts had to be contiguous
:shrug:

once you take out that requirement, there's practically no limit to the extremes of gerrymandering. any house could be put in any district. i would think they might do that if only to keep an incumbent congresscritter's house in 'their' shifting district.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 07:12 PM
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30. What's "contiguous"? Matter of definition
All the pieces of this district share a common shoreline, i.e. they are 'connected' by water. If this weren't allowed it would be viewed most unfavorably by some coastal states. And it's worth noting that the state of Michigan isn't contiguous without it.
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MrMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 02:49 PM
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24. How did they miss Va Beach?
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:35 AM
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27. Congressional District 3 should be illegal.
That stretches the rules big time. They are only connected by water way.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:52 PM
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2. looks good :-) n/t
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:54 PM
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3. Is the 28th CD (TX)
the one that DeLay had gerrymandered? Sure looks it!

pnorman
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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 09:01 PM
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5. All of Texas
is gerrymandered to hell and back again. We need independent commissions to draw lines, not partisans from EITHER side. Yes we might lose a few seats in Cali or New York if we do that, but we gain the moral high ground and we put plenty of cushy seats up in the air. Time to shake things up a bit ;)
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 09:54 PM
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10. We need to make it strictly by lattitude and longtitude, I think. n/t
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PDittie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 09:20 PM
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6. Thanks, AlecB eom
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 09:26 PM
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7. Thanks. I was looking for a map like this.
Pretty amazing how they divide these districts, huh?
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 09:32 PM
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9. excellent!
bookmarked!
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 09:57 PM
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11. All states are there, thanks.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 10:05 PM
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12. Thanks, Alec!
Bookmarked! :hi:
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 10:19 PM
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13. Posted in Research Forum Site for you
Research Forum Link
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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 10:30 PM
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17. hey great!
thanks LF ... Ive been trying to figure out that research forum :crazy:
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 10:20 PM
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14. Bookmarked and Kicked!
:kick:
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mikelewis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 10:20 PM
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15. Google Earth lets you see Congressional districts in 3-d Sat pictures
it's awesome
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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 10:25 PM
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16. be sure to poke around the site
http://nationalatlas.gov/index.html

there are lots of other great maps - check out this one of the 2000 election. See if you notice something about the south...
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BluegrassDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 10:57 PM
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18. Check out IL-04...
talk about gerrymandering!
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minvis Donating Member (334 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 01:31 AM
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28. Nice one isn't it?
It's Luis Guiterrez's district. It was done to connect two heavily Hispanic areas of Chicago that are not near each other (Humboldt Park, primarily Puerto Rican, and Pilsen/Little Village, primarily Mexican) and thereby elect a Hispanic congressman.

By the way, the way they made that contiguous was by using an interstate out in the suburbs to connect it.
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 11:40 PM
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19. Thanks! Here is one I found very helpful:
I found this while doing research for the DU Campaign Underground last election.

http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com

Ignore the hedious thanksgiving background and click on State by State coverage. You won't find cool maps but you will find detailed breakdowns of all the seats, all the candidates, links to their websites if they have them, past race percentages, the whole nine yards.

Highly Recommended! :thumbsup:
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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 12:03 AM
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20. wow
that site is LOADED! reccomended and :kick:ed
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 12:07 AM
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21. Nice site. I will book mark it. btw Frank Wolf is going down!!! n/t
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:33 AM
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22. the way the Repugs have carved up districts is asanine . . .
my own district, for example, extends from the upper Hudson Valley over to Port Jervis on the Pennsylvania border and covers a bunch of Westchester and a small part of Rockland County, both of which are NYC suburban communities . . . the needs of the upstate communities have very little in common with those of the metropolitan area, yet we're all represented by the same (very ineffective) Congresscritter (Rep. Sue Kelly, R) . . .

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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:27 AM
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23. What a great site.
Thanks for the info. This is bookmarked.
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JPZenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:18 PM
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25. Check out these re-re-districts created by Tom Delay




The 4th looks like Bullwinkle's head. These were the districts that Delay created with the illegal corporate contributions.
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Flying Dream Blues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 12:19 AM
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31. Austinite here. Everytime I think about this my head explodes.
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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:18 AM
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26. kick
:kick: its a good link so I want let yall see it. just one kick i promise ;)
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:08 PM
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29. For the original gerrymander, see this historical cartoon
Edited on Wed Nov-30-05 03:24 PM by eppur_se_muova
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

edited to add:
...and the article below it is very informative. Lots of repug shenanigans exposed.
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 08:02 AM
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32. Cool.
Edited on Fri Dec-02-05 08:03 AM by JNelson6563
Here's mine, I travel it frequently.



Though not so clearly shown here it's actually 14 counties. It's a big territory to work and it's firmly in Rethug hands. For now.

Julie
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