BREAKING: George Holding (NC-2) announces retirement; can't compete with new District lines

[brooklynite]

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Cook moved the district from LEAN R to LIKELY D.

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[dewsgirl]

1. Another one bites the dust....

[griloco]

12. I feel for the dust having to absorb toxic waste...

[dewsgirl]

14. LOL

[Va Lefty]

2. Womp, womp.

[bluestarone]

3. So just retire and

Let the rethug assholes continue with NO COMMENTS? Let them DESTROY our country? Thanks alot go fuck yourself!

[liskddksil]

11. umm he's a GOPer and the Dem is going to take the seat nt

[NewJeffCT]

4. I thought the redrawn map

won't apply for 2020, or did I miss something?

[gratuitous]

9. I think the court ruled it was too late to redraw the map again

So, while the majority Republican legislature took a couple-three cracks at a fair map, none of them passed court review. The latest one, the best of a bad lot, will be the one in effect in 2020, and I'm guessing the North Carolina legislature will re-visit the district map in 2021. Still not fair, but better than it was.

I think this makes the count of Republicans opting for retirement/resignation/one step-ahead-of-the-sheriff to 20. Not as many as cut and run in 2018, but a higher proportion of the Republican caucus percentage-wise than in 2018.

I know the media are trying mightily to inflate the leaky Republican balloon with tales of how evenly divided the electorate is, but you have to figure that the most knowledgeable analysts of the political scene are politicians. To this point, Republicans are saying a LOT more with their actions than they ever do with their lying mouths.

[grantcart]

17. Will apply

[magicarpet]

5. Rethug:

If the politician can not select their voters...

But instead the voters select their politicians...

Rethuglicans ask, "Where is the nearest door". In order to win they need to game the system and somehow cheat.

[malaise]

6. Nailed it n/t

[marble falls]

7. And this is why every vote and every election is important. We allowed the GOP to just about take ..

Congress away from us by reapportioning gerrymandering, and we need to vote every election, we cannot trust the judicial to protect us again.

[Backseat Driver]

8. That's great but too bad he's not a Senator.

[evertonfc]

10. so,

we are likely to gain 2 seats on this redraw alone?

[moose65]

13. Yes!

Currently Dems only hold 3 Congressional seats to 10 for Republicans - one of the most extreme gerrymanders in the country. This map will almost guarantee 5 Dem districts, and 2 more that are kinda swingy, so we'll see. NC is pretty much evenly divided, so this map is a little better, but still not where it should be!

[grantcart]

16. Done deal

[grantcart]

15. Walker is next

[NCjack]

18. DEMs have a slight edge over REPUKES in NC. But, the

last REPUKE map was OK'd for 2020 by the court several weeks, as there is not enough time to do it again. Again and again, the REPUKES have played the court. The map approved for 2020 will give the 'PUKES an 8 to 5 advantage.