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TexasTowelie

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Thu Nov 4, 2021, 01:57 PM Nov 2021

N.H. Republicans propose new congressional map, turning swing district into GOP stronghold

Republicans in the New Hampshire House are considering a redistricting proposal that would make the state’s First Congressional District – which has toggled between the parties but is now held by Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas — significantly more Republican.

Some Republican leaders have been blunt in expressing their ambition to make that congressional district, which covers much of the eastern part of the state, friendlier terrain for Republican candidates. State GOP Chairman Steve Stepanek has gone so far as to say the district should be “guaranteed” to elect a Republican.

Gov. Chris Sununu, meanwhile, has promised to veto any congressional map that doesn’t pass what he’s called the “smell test.”

This new map, which the House Redistricting Committee is expected to discuss Thursday, proposes shrinking the First Congressional District geographically. Under the plan, the district would run from the towns of Hudson to Seabrook across the state’s southern border, before heading northwest to across the Lakes Region. It would lose a long slice along the state's eastern border, including several Democratic-friendly communities near the Maine border.

Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/N-H-Republicans-propose-new-congressional-map-turning-swing-district-into-GOP-stronghold-43387092


Republicans in the N.H. House are considering a new map of the state's congressional districts that would make the First District (dark blue) significantly more Republican, surrounded on three sides by the state's Second Congressional District. —NHPR

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N.H. Republicans propose new congressional map, turning swing district into GOP stronghold (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2021 OP
...which would turn the other district into a super democratic stronghold ColinC Nov 2021 #1
More "southern politics" Mopar151 Nov 2021 #2
That's where all the people are. The rest is trees. Bristlecone Nov 2021 #3

Bristlecone

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3. That's where all the people are. The rest is trees.
Thu Nov 4, 2021, 11:06 PM
Nov 2021

The seacoast to Manchester, south to Salem and the Mass border.

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