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Originally Posted by BoBromhal
in a nutshell, how was this worse than D gerrymandering before?
though first, let me say that I wish the R's didn't do any gerrymandering. I really do wish that "my" party could have governed the right way, the way governance hadn't been done under the Dems. Alas, a pipedream of naivete.
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Just look at the Presidential results by Congressional district between 2008 and 2012 to see how stark the difference is. Obama won the state in 2008 by a very close 0.33% margin, Romney's margin in 2012 wasn't quite as narrow, but still very close at 2.04%
Obama won 7 of the 13 Congressional districts in 2008 in a very close racee, however in a race almost as close in 2012 Obama only won 3 of the 13 Congressional districts. In 2008 5 of the 13 Congressional Districts in the state were within 10 points on the Presidential level, 4 of the 13 districts were within 6 points. In 2012 none of the Congressional districts were within 6 points, none were within 10 points, and only one was within 15 points (NC-13 was within 12).
In fact if the current lines were in place in 2008, despite winning the state (albeit narrowly) Obama would have only won 3 of the state's 13 Congressional Districts, and only two of the districts he would hve lost would have been within single digits (and at the tale end of single digits at that as NC-9 and NC-13 under the current lines would have gone to McCain by 9). Now that is some SERIOUS gerrymandering.