Sentences with phrase «drawing congressional maps»

According to a source familiar with the results of these polls, Hanna's numbers improved in the Binghamton and Utica portions of the district — two areas on which his TV ad buys have specifically focused, in part because the district lines changed significantly in the court - drawn congressional map used for the fist time in the 2012 elections.

The potential showdown between the two Democrats would have been the first major challenge to an incumbent that came about as a result of the independently drawn congressional maps.

However, Mr. Turner quickly found himself without a clear reelection scenario as the court - drawn congressional map divided his district up between neighboring, heavily Democratic, districts.

Pennsylvania Democrats did not sue to overturn the GOP - drawn Congressional map.

Jimmy Vielkind (Capital Confidential) reported on Thursday afternoon that a federal three - judge panel is poised to adopt a set of court - drawn congressional maps with minimal changes.

Not exact matches

Drawing Along Party Lines: Looking at Pennsylvania's new congressional - district map, one thing is clear: It's impossible to scrub politics from map - making.

Anyway, with this year's post-Census line - drawing just about done (about whose implications you were warned in 2009), Google's put together a handy map of new Congressional districts across the country:

Democratic Congressional hopeful Richard Becker released a map today that he says shows most of his donations — nearly 78 percent — came from within the newly drawn NY - 18 or the old NY - 19.

For example, the website Draw Congress compiled publicly - generated maps for both Congressional and state legislative districts.

The map to the right depicts New York's congressional district lines as drawn following the 2010 United States Census.

The map to the right depicts Massachusetts» congressional district lines as drawn following the 2010 United States Census.

And she encouraged activists to work to elect more state legislators before the next congressional maps are drawn after the 2020 Census.

The move allows the courts to draw their own Congressional map if the State Legislature can not draw lines in time for the June 26th primary.

But after a court last month upheld the state's congressional map drawn by an independent commission and thus, the makeup of her Democratic - leaning House district, national Democrats think that Sinema, one of the party's rising stars, might just wait for another opportunity down the road.

The judge - drawn redistricting maps for House districts reshuffled the deck a bit when it comes to Congressional represenation.

Proposal One would change the way congressional and state legislative district maps are drawn.

There's a sour national political environment, a history of the president's party losing seats in midterms and an unfavorable congressional map drawn mostly by Republicans.

The map to the right depicts Michigan's congressional district lines as drawn following the 2010 United States Census.

Meanwhile, black and Latino legislators and activists are protesting today around the state to urge Cuomo to forge a legislative solution that would disregard the congressional lines drawn by a federal judge (after the legislature failed to agree on a proposal for them), saying the map won't help the chances of electing more minority members of Congress.

In North Carolina, the Governor does not have the power to veto the Congressional map drawn by the legislature.

The impending retirement of Representative Maurice Hinchey was supposed to make things easy on Democrats, in terms of New York's newly drawn congressional - district map.

Reaction to the state and congressional maps was drastically different, with independent groups and elected officials blasting the state lines as gerrymandered to keep Senate Republicans in power, while praising the congressional lines drawn by a court - appointed judge as fairly drawn.

The map to the right depicts Maryland's congressional district lines as drawn following the 2010 United States Census.

It also establishes firm deadlines for the different stages of the redistricting process to ensure that lines are established in a timely manner and delays in drawing maps do not disadvantage challengers running against state legislative or congressional incumbents.

The map to the right depicts Vermont's congressional district as drawn following the 2010 United States Census.

While the new method doesn't provide a new tool for drawing congressional district maps, it does provide a rigorous test to detect that existing maps were created in a biased fashion, and researchers may find applications in the many other fields where Markov Chains are used.