Friday, September 3, 2021

Yahoo! News (9/1/21) on New Hampshire GOP's Determination to Draw an R-Leaning District (NEW HAMPSHIRE)

Yahoo! News reports on how Republicans in New Hampshire, who control the state legislature and hold the governorship, are angling to change the Granite State's current 2-0 Democratic hold on U.S. House seats to 1-1.

Democrats -- Chris Pappas (2018-2022) and Carol Shea-Porter (2016-2018) in the 1st district and Ann McLane Kuster in the 2nd -- have held both seats since the 2016 election. Pappas was re-elected with only 51.3% of the vote in 2020, whereas Kuster did a bit better that year with 53.9%. Hence, moving some Democratic-leaning areas from Pappas's district to Kuster's and sending some Republican-leaning areas from Kuster's to Pappas's would strengthen Kuster's hand, but make Pappas's 1st district more winnable for the GOP. 

Gov. Chris Sununu (R) only seems on board with this plan up to a point, vowing not to support any overly serpentine line drawings. The above-linked Yahoo! News article notes that New Hampshire's district lines have not varied much over the last several decades, which is borne out is this compilation of historical diagrams.

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