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Hochul’s win throws a major wrench into New York redistricting
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| Last Edited | COSDem May 26, 2011 02:22pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, May 26, 2011 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The conventional wisdom on how New York legislators will redraw their congressional maps went out the window Tuesday night, with Democrat Kathy Hochul stealing a Republican-leaning western New York district in a special election.
The Empire State’s congressional delegation has to shrink by two members due to growth that lagged the national average over the last decade.
Control of redistricting is split between the two parties. Under that arrangement, both parties are likely to lose one seat, and the thinking had long been that one upstate Republican and one New York City-area Democrat would be left without seats when the game of musical chairs ended.
But Hochul’s win throws a sizeable wrench into that premise. And by Wednesday morning, her win was forcing consultants and incumbents all over the state to re-evaluate their expectations about the congressional redistricting process.
“It screws it up majorly,” said one Democratic strategist familiar with the redistricting process. |
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