Tag: Delaware General Assembly; Redistricting

(UPDATED)–The Democratic Redistricting Plan–My First Take

Filed in Delaware by on May 19, 2011 7 Comments

While I haven’t looked at all the districts yet, I’m very encouraged by what I’ve seen so far.

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House R Redistricting Plan Not A Serious Plan

Filed in National by on May 17, 2011 16 Comments

Where was the largest proportion of population growth during the past decade? If you said lower NCC, you’d be correct. The area around Middletown and its environs have exploded. No serious redistricting plan could avoid this development, yet somehow the House Rethug redistricting plan manages to reapportion without even providing one new district in this area, let alone the two that the population shift calls for.

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House Redistricting Moving In Another Direction?

Filed in Delaware by on May 9, 2011 5 Comments

Possibly. And I’m not sure I like the direction it may be heading. There seems to be an emerging consensus that all four Wilmington districts may survive redistricting. The alternative, which is possible, would be for Gerald Brady’s district to disappear. As it turns out, seniority would place Brady at a disadvantage amongst the Wilmington […]

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Time To Make the Districts: Part Deux

Filed in National by on March 10, 2011 6 Comments

In Which We Create Two A Brand New Senate Districts. OK, some simple math. If you create two new senate districts, and if you leave the total number of senate districts at 21, then two existing districts must disappear. In our last, perhaps too much ‘inside baseball’- laced treatise, I identified Senate District 3, currently […]

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