Since Obama managed to win Nebraska’s second congressional district 3 years ago I’ve been wondering just how Democratic a district it is possible to make in Nebraska. With the new census data becoming available, now seemed as good a time as any to find out! As Dave’s Redistricting App doesn’t include partisan data for Nebraska I tabulated each precinct by hand.
CD1 Blue
57% Obama 43% McCain, 71/11/12 W/B/H
The Democratic district stretches predictably enough from Omaha to Lincoln and on into Saline county. While it certainly isn’t the most Democratic congressional district going around it is pretty darn blue for Nebraska and the right kind of Democrat could do very well here.
CD2 Green
39% Obama 61% McCain, 90/2/5 W/B/H
The non-CD1 parts of south-east Nebraska.
CD3 Dark magenta
30% Obama 70% McCain, 85/1/11 W/B/H
The rest of Nebraska.
doing precinct counts by hand is not fun at all.
I like the map!
2 Obama districts. Another question- Are the precincts roughly aligned with the Census tracts in Nebraska? If so, we could get onto making data available for the App.