Illinois poised to lose Shimkus seat after census – Effingham Daily News

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debtsor
6 years ago

“If the 15th District is eliminated, Democrats can draw a map that makes one of the other Republican southern districts, the 12th or the 13th, more competitive in elections, according to John Jackson, a visiting professor at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.”

This is a nice way of saying that the Democrats intend to gerrymander a solidly Red district to flip it Blue.

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