What Pete said bears repeating (re-Peting? : ), this is not *the* map, just *a* map. I haven’t paid particular attention to it, since I am certain that the two houses will come ro an agreement and the governor will sign it rather than permit the judge-drawn congressional map to go into effect (which is exactly what happened in 2002).
I had never heard of Gibson described as a RINO—to the contrary, my impression of him is ery positive. Of the Upstate GOP delegation, Hanna is reflexively pro-abortion and I would not be saddened at all were he to lose a primary, Nan Hayworth is a Sue Kelly-type, but maybe a bit less liberal on social issues, and everyone else appears to be fine.
As for NY-23, the way to make it safely Dem without wasting GOP votes that could be used to help surrounding Republicans would be to combine the three Dem North Country counties with Albany and other Dem areas from the Dem NY-21.
My dream map would place all of Buffalo, Niagara Falls and surrounding Dem areas in a single district, draw a second Dem CD in Western NY that combines Rochester, Syracuse, Ithaca and Binghampton with Dem parts of the Finger Lakes (Seneca, Auburn, etc.), the aforementioned North Country-Albany CD, an overwhelmingly Dem CD in Westchester County, and 7 GOP CDs in Upstate. I would combine black parts of Westchester with black parts of Harlem and the Bronx to make Rangel’s CD black majority, and create two Hispanic-majority CDs in the Bronx, Harlem and northern Queens. I would draw one all-Manhattan CD for Maloney and Nadler to fight over, and create a new, heavily Orthodox CD in Brooklyn that combines the Brookly portions of Nadler’s and Turner’s CDs (which gave McCain like 55% in 2008). But Turner’s Catholic bailiwick In southern Queens I would place in the State Island-Bensonhurst NY-13 (which could then shed minority neighborhoods in Staten Island), and if Turner ran there and beat out Grimm I wouldn’t shed a tear (Grimm isn’t the conservative I thought he was). The Jewish Queens precincts from Turner’s CD could be combined with Catholic precincts from Crowley’s and Maloney’s to draw a competitive Queens district. In Long Island, I would place black parts of Nassau (Hempstead, etc.) in the black-majority NY-06 centered in Queens, draw a heavily Dem CD in the South Shore for Congressmen Israel and McCarthy to fight over (Five Towns, Islip, etc.), and draw three GOP CDs in the remaining turf. With such a map, the GOP could win 12, maybe even 13 of the 27 CDs.
the Gold-kid has been doing his homework. What a whiz.
Trying to remember if you are part of the IL team .... or was it MA? Why don’t you put your state on your homepage?
And what are your thoughts on CT-5? GOP primary.
As I understand it, if the legislature and governor are unable to come to agreement (which is quite likely) this is the map.