[nascarnation]

Who was in charge of the redistricting?
Don’t Republicans hold big majorities in both the state House and Senate?

[grania]

The Republicans were in charge of redistricting. What they did here is appalling and dumb. A lot of these Kucinich suburbs they gerrymandered away from him are wasted by being folded into the black district, to connect the minorities in Cleveland and Akron.

These are conservative towns. Kucinich is popular here, but they'd easily go for a conservative candidate. It looked like a deal to save a black district....just guessing.