Redistricting: The Ins & Outs of the New House and Senate Lines
A look at some of the numbers behind PA’s new state House and Senate districts. Which Democrats represent the most Republican districts, vice versa, and other statistical quirks.
A look at some of the numbers behind PA’s new state House and Senate districts. Which Democrats represent the most Republican districts, vice versa, and other statistical quirks.
The 2012 cycle yielded the lowest number and percentage of major party Pennsylvania U.S. House members from the state’s winning presidential candidate since the birth of the two-party system in 1828.
Now that the Pa. Supreme Court has cemented the new state House and Senate maps, lawmakers must look to 2014 – and in some cases at each other. Here are the potential races between incumbent legislators.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a map. In a unanimous decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Wednesday approved the latest redistricting effort by lawmakers.
The GOP won a lopsided majority of Pennsylvania’s congressional seats despite the fact that Democrats won more votes for Congress here.
The presidential race is within the margin of error according to the final poll by The Allentown Morning Call and Muhlenberg College. President Obama leads Mitt Romney by 3 points.
The Casey campaign has gone negative, launching a new attack ad Thursday against GOP opponent Tom Smith for supporting unfair trade laws.
The panel charged with redrawing state House and Senate maps passed its final plan Friday, voting 4-1 to in favor of those submitted by Republican members.
We asked readers whether the Supreme Court will uphold the latest redistricting map, and a whopping 55 percent of you predict the map will be rejected because of either municipality splits or blatant gerrymandering.
With the map ready to go before the Supreme Court, PoliticsPA would like to ask its readers in our latest poll whether the Supreme Court is likely to accept or reject the LRC’s latest proposal.
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