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This really isn't the GOP hamstringing West, but rather the new voter approved redistricting laws which call for more compact districts.
The current district is an uber extreme gerrymander to make a marginal district out of a heavily Democratic area which was drawn to protect the Congressman at the time Republican Clay Shaw. Anything drawn to even the slightest bit of compactness in this part of Florida is going to be a Democratic district, so the GOP couldn't protect West even if they wanted to. They still draw the districts, and can still gerrymander, but not in the extreme way they were able to do last time around because of the compactness laws. No extreme gerrymander, no Weat
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