Welcome to my first diary, I altered the numbering of the congressional district to be geographically oriented. The goal of this diary is to produce an 8-0 Maryland delegation. After playing with the map for a few weeks, I produced 7 districts that are Democratic and another district for former Congressman Frank Kratovil. The easiest way to make the district 8-0 is to split the Eastern Shore. Originally I had a 6-0-2 map in which the 1st District was slightly McCain and the 6th District was slightly Obama, after editing, they both became more Democratic. I have have also tried to clean-up the look of the current 2nd&3rd Districts.
1st District: open (blue)
Democrat: frm. Rep. Frank Kratovil?
Advantage: Tossup, Likely D w/Kratovil
2008 results: Obama 50.1% McCain 48.0% Other 1.9%
Race: 73.6% W,15.8% AA,5.6% H,3.5% A,1.5% O
2nd District (current 5th): Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (green)
Democrat: Steny Hoyer
Advantage: Safe Dem
2008 results: Obama 59.8% McCain 39.1% Other 1.1%
Race: 60.6% W,32.0% AA,3.2% H,2.2% A,2.0% O
3rd District : Rep. John Sarbanes (purple)
Democrat: John Sarbanes
Advantage: Safe Dem
2008 results: Obama 58.2% McCain 39.8% Other 2.0%
Race: 67.5% W,21.2% AA,4.9% H,4.2% A,2.1% O
4th District (current 2nd): Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D), Rep. Andy Harris (R)? (red)
Democrat: Dutch Ruppersberger
Advantage: Safe Dem
2008 results: Obama 58.9% McCain 39.1% Other 2.0%
Race: 65.0% W,26.4% AA,3.3% H,3.4% A,1.8% O
5th District (current 7th): Rep. Elijah Cummings (yellow) VRA
Democrat: Elijah Cummings
Advantage: Safe Dem
2008 results: Obama 77.0% McCain 21.7% Other 1.3%
Race: 33.9% W,56.2% AA,2.7% H,5.3% A,1.7% O
6th District (current 4th): Rep. Donna Edwards* (teal) VRA
*lives outside current 4th and new 6th
Democrat: Donna Edwards
Advantage: Safe Dem
2008 results: Obama 77.9% McCain 21.1% Other 1.0%
Race: 30.7% W,53.0% AA,10.2% H,4.6% A,1.5% O
7th District (current 6th) : Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R)(gray)
Democrat: Jen Dougherty? thoughts?
Advantage: Likely Dem
2008 results: Obama 55.2% McCain 42.9% Other 1.9%
Race: 64.6% W,11.6% AA,11.3% H,10.6% A,1.8% O
8th District: Rep. Chris Van Hollen (light purple)
Democrat: Chris Van Hollen
Advantage: Safe Dem
2008 results: Obama 61.6% McCain 36.8% Other 1.6%
Race: 65.8% W,13.8% AA,12.2% H,6.5% A,1.7% O
Thoughts on winners and losers in this map?
Errors?
Who would run in the new 7th?
Who would be unhappy with this map?