Tag: VA06
“Not a mask on a face,” Fearmongering About “Socialism,” and They...
The Canvassing Caravan Rolls Through the Shenandoah Valley, and Into the...
The author of the Muslim Ban is on the way out....
Video: More Lunacy from Theocratic Extremist Republican Cynthia Dunbar in VA-06
New Virginia Poll: Big “Blue Wave” Forming for November Elections; Dem...
Video: Anti-Pipeline Activist Jennifer Lewis Kicks Off Campaign for Congress in...
Redistricting: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going
Where We've Been
Going back over a decade ago, Virginia Republicans in 2001 had the "privilege" of controlling redistricting for the first time in the modern era. They leveraged this advantage into pressuring Virgil Goode, already a Democrat-In-Name-Only who had voted to impeach President Clinton, to officially leave the party and begin to caucus with the GOP. They also worked to shore up newly elected Congressman Randy Forbes in the 4th, who had won a special election by a very close margin.
Below, I've calculated the partisan lean of the post-2000 census drawn district based on the 2000 Presidential numbers relative to the national average. So a R +6 district is one in which George W. Bush ran 6 points ahead of his national showing (47.87%, or rounded to 48%), which as we all know was less than Al Gore's popular vote national...