Then there are fire districts, water districts, sewer districts, park districts and on and on.
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It spans three congressional districts, four State Senate districts and 2101 school districts.
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There are two state house districts within each state Senate district and state Senate districts follow the same boundary lines as congressional districts – no state districts are divided into multiple congressional districts.
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Some of these districts switched from Obama districts to Trump districts for the same reason.
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"You can't hold this majority if you lose California districts because California districts look like suburban Pennsylvania districts and New Jersey [swing] districts," explained Rep.
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Overlaps With 4 State Senate Districts Overlaps With 7 Counties 101st District Overlaps With 3 Congressional Districts Overlaps With 36 School Districts Overlaps With 1013 Counties Overlaps With 4 State Senate Districts 101st District Overlaps With 3 Congressional Districts Overlaps With 36 School Districts Overlaps With 4 State Senate Districts 101st District Overlaps With 7 Counties Overlaps With 3 Congressional Districts Overlaps With 36 School Districts Source: Census Bureau | By The New York Times How can anyone properly represent a district so incoherently drawn?
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On average, Democratic districts have nearly double the number of DACA recipients that Republican districts have: 2,469 in blue districts vs.
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There's discrepancies in teacher pay between affluent districts and poorer districts.
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Between the lines: There's inequality within districts and inequality between districts.
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My model thus successfully identified these districts as "temporary" Trump districts.
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Now, assuming Democrats don't also split 22-22018, districts would now be 50-25-25 districts (50 percent Democrats, 25 percent Republicans, and 25 percent Conservatives), and 23-40 districts would become 40-30-30 districts.
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The redistricting plans in Michigan affected by the ruling comprise those for nine congressional districts, seven state Senate districts and 11 state House districts.
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States should dissolve current local school districts and collapse them into districts that integrate urban districts with suburban districts; establish per-pupil funding levels; and provide for extended social services for families in poverty, including parent education.
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"These districts for the specials are Donald Trump's handpicked districts," Sena said.
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Most states use congressional districts, though Texas uses state senate districts instead.
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For example, certain transit districts relied on arrests more than other districts.
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The scheme would require that state legislative districts be split evenly between districts that are more favorable to Democrats and districts more favorable to Republicans.
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Schriock: No. We're running women in a whole variety of districts right now across the country — some in suburban, exurban districts, some in rural districts.
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Breaking down the 47 challenger Democrats, 31 are in Solid Republican districts, six are in Likely Republican districts, and seven are in Lean Republican districts.
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Tailoring their messages while not dampening liberal energy could help Democrats in Rust Belt districts, suburban districts , and in Republican-held districts carried by Hillary Clinton.
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Those are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 8th Districts in Minnesota, the 2nd and 3rd Districts in Kansas and the 1st and 3rd Districts in Iowa.
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It's only allowed in a few districts—and districts are smaller than cities.
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There are 73 districts and charter schools closed, including the state's 10 largest districts.
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That, the aides said, means majority-minority districts and diverse districts across the South.
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The idea was that safely blue districts would lose population, and Republicans could push for those districts to expand by tacking on blue precincts from neighboring red districts.
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It is the leading distributor of piped gas in Xi'an, with exclusive distribution rights in four districts and parts of two other districts in the city's 10 districts.
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Blue districts are more likely to have high levels of income variation than red districts.
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Recounts were ordered in five districts and invalid ballots examined and recounted across all districts.
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We've started surveying dozens of the most competitive districts and have finished polls in nine: seven tossup districts and two districts that lean Republican, according to the Cook Political Report.
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Interestingly, the next 20 most competitive districts (where the favored party has between a 33 and 75% chance of winning), we see only two western districts, and zero northeastern districts!
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So this group of districts could be thought of as the broadest measure of Trump districts.
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Congress eliminated multi-seat districts in 1967, with the passage of the Uniform Congressional Districts Act.
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"Because of demographic shift, more and more suburban districts are not swing districts anymore," he said.
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House ... Enthusiasm gap: Democrats perform better in dark blue districts than Republicans in dark red districts.
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That is, 217 districts gave Trump a better margins, and 217 districts gave Clinton better margins.
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The districts are usually congressional districts, but some states use other lines to award those delegates.
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In 2018, roughly 55 congressional districts are potential swing districts, according to The Cook Political Report.
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Still, there are more Democratic women running in Solid Republican districts than in Solid Democratic districts.
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Among these trade-affected, initially Democratic districts, majority-white districts were more likely to elect conservative Republicans, while majority-minority districts tended to elect Democrats who were further to the left.
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The majority of the Super Tuesday delegates (about 65 percent) are in fact allotted based on results in individual districts (mostly congressional districts, except for Texas, which uses state senate districts instead).
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In Democratic districts, 212 percent of residents have college degrees, compared to 28 percent in Republican districts.
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Simply put, there are few to no Democratic "farm" districts and few to no Republican "urban" districts.
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The poorest are no longer confined to deprived rural districts, nor is everyone in such districts poor.
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They must now have chapters in all provinces, three-quarters of districts and half of sub-districts.
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"Although the criteria for districts is a political issue, creating these districts is not," Jacobson told me.
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Majority-white districts in the state reportedly received $7,613 more in funding per student than nonwhite districts.
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All told, districts represented by women received $49 million more per year than districts represented by men.
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Clinton led in 54 Republican-held districts nationwide while Mr. Trump led in only three Democratic districts.
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The trends: Blue districts tend to have more households with incomes above $200,000 than red districts do.
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But blue districts also tend to have more households with incomes below $10,000 than red districts do.
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Districts with high percentages of students of color receive on average $2,85033 less than whiter school districts.
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And white school districts tend to be much smaller than non-white school districts, the EdBuild says.
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Still, there are slightly more Democratic women running in Solid Republican districts than in Solid Democratic districts.
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In addition, the Afghan government lost control of seven more districts during the last quarter, meaning that only 249.6 percent of districts were "controlled or influenced" by the government, while 210 percent of the districts were under insurgent control or influence and 33.9 percent of districts were contested.
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His own analysis in The Long War Journal has the Afghan government controlling 143 of the country's districts (35 percent) and the insurgents 53 districts (13 percent), with 202 districts contested (49.6 percent).
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The other three-quarters are allotted proportionally by vote totals in various districts, typically determined by congressional districts.
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School districts may opt-in to the program, but the bill doesn't require teachers or districts to participate.
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School districts are paid for largely by property taxes, so [poorer districts] just don't have the same resources.
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"In blue districts the Democrats are getting bluer and in purple districts they're also getting bluer," McElwee said.
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Texas's congressional districts are particularly gerrymandered in the Austin region, which is carved into parts of six districts.
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Its part would be the larger part with six districts, and the minority's part would have four districts.
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Sixth graders in the richest school districts are four grade levels ahead of children in the poorest districts.
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A recent study found that predominantly non-white school districts receive $23 billion less than predominantly white districts.
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In Texas, women won Democratic nominations to challenge incumbents in two competitive districts — the 26th and 29rd Districts.
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Research shows that when states send more resources to their neediest districts, achievement levels in those districts rise.
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Democrats have fielded candidates in 88 districts, well more than the 57 districts where they competed in 2015.
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In Democratic districts, productivity per worker grew from $118,000 to $139,20183; in Republican districts from $109,000 to $110,000.
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Negotiations between local teacher associations, the school districts and state-appointed mediators are ongoing, the school districts said.
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"Look at the numbers -- not just people in Clinton districts, [but] in swing districts raising resources," Law said.
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Most districts still have substantial autonomy to raise school taxes, though some districts aren't able to and this can lead to pervasive inequality between rich and poor districts and brings our national results down.
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We'll be able to get a sense of, for example, how districts that voted for Hillary Clinton are tipping, compared to districts Trump won big or to districts Obama won but then flipped to Trump.
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Two districts in Dallas were "packed" to include large numbers of Hispanic voters, diluting their clout in adjoining districts, while others were formed with the express purpose of "cracking" Hispanic voter strength across several districts.
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The challengers said the new districts favored Democrats over Republicans by packing Republican voters into certain districts in a way that would minimize their influence in neighboring districts while enhancing the sway of Democratic voters.
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Using the map, developed with data analytics firm BlueLabs, Latino Victory found nine congressional districts, 21 state senate districts and 46 lower state House districts that are majority Hispanic but are not represented by Latinos.
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But the Supreme Court faulted the lower court for throwing out five of the state House districts while upholding the decision to throw out the two other House districts and the two state Senate districts.
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Twenty-six House districts were re-aligned by an outside expert after a lower court ruled 11 districts unconstitutional.
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In 22006 chambers, we identified tipping-point districts — the most difficult districts to flip to win a bare majority.
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Through gerrymandering Republicans worked to pack more blacks into fewer of Georgia's Congressional districts, making most other districts whiter.
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To do that, they'll often spread out majority party voters among several districts to make those districts more competitive.
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Nearly all districts said overall price pressures were minimal, and just two districts reported an acceleration in wage gains.
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Majority-white districts were also found to have received $85033,000 more in funding per student than majority-nonwhite districts.
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"This appeals in districts we have to win, and this appeals in districts we have already won," he said.
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That's where diversity — from Latino-heavy districts in California to white working-class districts in the Midwest — comes in.
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The diverted tax dollars are siphoned off from other local governments such as counties, school districts and special districts.
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Republicans control 63 out of the 69 districts where voters were polled, and Trump carried 48 of these districts.
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Pureval and Scholten's districts are "likely" to go red, while Thompson and Spaulding are campaigning in "solid R" districts.
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Such disparities perpetuate even within districts, with 72% of school districts providing lower teacher salaries in Title I schools.
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Sixth graders in the richest school districts are four grade levels ahead of children in the poorest districts. 23.
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The Clinton-won districts Republicans currently represent 23 districts where Hillary Clinton beat Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
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In the redrawing of districts following the 2010 census, Republicans created incredibly safe, ideologically pure districts with fewer dissenters.
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The biggest state on the Super Tuesday map, California has 415 total pledged delegates at stake and 32 majority-nonwhite districts, including 15 that are majority Latino districts, four considered black districts and two Asian seats.
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While a few states rely on nonpartisan or bipartisan commissions to draw districts, most districts are drawn by state legislators.
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The law grants the High Electoral Board the authority to merge electoral districts and move ballot boxes to other districts.
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The hoped-for result is that your party loses a few districts hugely, yet wins a majority of districts comfortably.
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But as the San Francisco-based programmer Chris Fedor labored to show, unbiased districts don't necessarily result in fair districts.
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One overturned the partisan gerrymander of the state legislature's districts; the other issued an injunction against the state's congressional districts.
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Restrictions were lifted in five districts of Jammu on Monday, and relaxed in nine Kashmir districts, the home ministry said.
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Four Republicans considered vulnerable, but in districts won by Trump, will also see the ads air in their districts: Reps.
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According to Ed Trust's annual Funding Gaps report, high-poverty districts receive $1,200 less per student than low poverty districts.
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These districts also voted for Mitt Romney by double digits, so these are solid Republican districts on the presidential level.
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Districts have come to look like mutated octopuses as they're drawn to make districts safe — including and excluding certain populations.
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"Every member has to represent their own unique districts in the way that those districts will support," Mr. Jacobs said.
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Similarly, there are more Republican women running in House districts rated Solid Democratic by CNN than in Solid Republican districts.
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Only two of these districts are completely urban or completely rural, compared to about a quarter of all other districts.
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There are dozens of "battleground" districts in the House, and 31 Democrats represent districts where Trump also won in 2016.
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On average, nonwhite districts received about $2,200 less per student than districts that were predominantly white, according to the report.
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The emails boasted of packing "Dem garbage" into four districts in southeastern Michigan, leaving adjacent districts with secure Republican majorities.
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Some House districts in the state cut across neighborhoods, literally separating houses next to each other into two different districts.
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"On measures of literacy and basic education, in the 200 largest school districts in the country, California has 11 of the lowest performing 26 districts, including three among the lowest performing 10 districts," according to the complaint.
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" He added that Bloomberg's cash "will likely be deployed in a highly targeted effort concentrating resources in districts that have a majority Democrat registration, but voted for Trump in 2016; districts where Democrats underperformed; districts where Latinos and women turnouts can be increased; and highly marginal districts where targeted efforts can result in victory.
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Ugly-looking districts don't always point to gerrymandering, but in this case, they do — Republicans tried to pack Democratic-leaning areas together into very few districts while surrounding the state's big cities with districts Republicans would win comfortably.
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Gerrymandering is carried out by configuring districts in a way that packs as many like-minded voters as possible into a small number of districts and distributing the rest in other districts too thinly to form a majority.
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Democrats wasted 26 percent of the vote in the two districts that they won and then Republicans wasted 24 percent of the vote in the two districts they lost and 9 percent in the three districts they win.
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Many of the most heavily Democratic districts, by turn, are majority black districts home to reliable supporters of stricter gun laws.
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The decline of swing districts: In 1997, voters in 164 of the nation's 435 House districts were relatively split by party.
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The state voted in new districts in the 2016 elections, with Republicans maintaining their 10–3 advantage in the new districts.
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Democrats' path runs through districts like Coffman's: Districts represented in the House by Republicans, but which Hillary Clinton won in 210.
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More than 70 will be held in GOP districts, while about 30 will be held in Democratic districts, ABC News reports.
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Districts with lots of farmers got agriculture-related earmarks; districts with large military bases got defense-related earmarks, and so forth.
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One aim of the practice has been to reconfigure electoral boundaries to transfer redundant votes from safe districts into swing districts.
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Among the 100 most diverse districts in the country — districts where the nonwhite population is highest — Republicans hold just 11 seats.
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A different picture in less affluent districts But the equation still looks very different for Democrats in more blue-collar districts.
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"You have 435 districts in the nation, and there's probably only 20 or so that are legitimate swing districts," he said.
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"People who are in swing districts and suburban districts, they don't have to be a clone of Bernie Sanders," added Khanna.
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When state funding falls, some mostly poorer school districts are unable to make up the difference, leading to inequities among districts.
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To remedy those cases, states tend to hold rich districts harmless and give poor districts a bigger funding increase, he said.
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But there are significant variations between districts, with districts with more small schools and charter schools falling behind in music participation.
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She encouraged other queer teachers facing discrimination in their conservative districts to avoid the temptation to move to more progressive districts.
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Rodriguez has consigned children living in poor public school districts to a less well-financed education than children in richer districts.
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Bannon said his objective is to target approximately 40 congressional districts around the country, but he declined to name the districts.
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Dozens of districts have tried to break off from larger school districts since 2000, according to U.S. News and World Report.
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Nine U.S. House and 25 state legislative districts were at issue in Michigan, while Ohio's case involved 16 U.S. House districts.
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A new law laid out a parliamentary map on Sunday that was different from that of past elections, dividing the country into 15 districts and 27 sub-districts, and establishing a complex new system of proportional representation that allowed voters to choose both a slate of candidates in larger districts and a preferred candidate running in their sub-districts.
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Given the unanimous opposition by Democrats on Friday's vote and the Democratic Party's current seat advantage in urban districts, it is unsurprising that most members from urban districts voted on the opposite side of most members from rural districts.
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Out of the country's 2023,000 traditional public school districts examined in the report, EdBuild reportedly found roughly 7,600 districts where over 21625 percent of students were white and nearly 2900,220006 districts where over 2202 percent of students were nonwhite.
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Even before the fall of the two recent districts, the insurgents controlled 11 districts from the country's roughly 400 districts, and influenced another 34, according to United States military data released by the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
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The most Democratic-leaning districts are accorded the most delegates; in many places these are majority black and Hispanic districts, and Mrs.
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The bill also grants the YSK High Electoral Board the authority to merge electoral districts and move ballot boxes to other districts.
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Amazon Inspire already has a variety of school districts using the platform, including districts in Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont, among others.
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Wealthier districts can depend on local property taxes to fund schools during economic downturns, but poorer districts mostly rely on state funds.
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Indeed, most Republicans in Clinton districts voted against the bill — as they face different concerns than their Republican colleagues in redder districts.
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School meal debt is a challenge for most school districts, and policies for how school districts deal with this issue vary significantly.
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The ads target districts where Republican incumbents traditionally face tough races, but also some districts that are generally considered safe Republican seats.
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The CLF is up with ads in four California districts, for instance, while the NRCC has placed ads in two districts there.
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Amazon Inspire already has a variety of school districts using the platform, including districts in Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont, among others.
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Mr. Trump's biggest challenges are five well-educated congressional districts near or including Manhattan — the 215th, 10th, 7th, 12th and 13th Districts.
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Problems fester when we ignore school districts' differences and instead issue funding and mandates as though all school districts are the same.
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For example, ISIS is now believed to be in two to three districts, down from six to eight districts three months ago.
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Democrats waste 26 percent of the vote in the two districts they win and 41 percent in the three districts they lose.
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Republicans waste 24 percent of the vote in the two districts they lose and 9 percent in the three districts they win.
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Among the congressional districts, the biggest prizes were the 20th, 21st, and 22nd districts, with seven delegates up for grabs in each.
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The Court ruled that states didn't have to give poor black and Latino school districts the same funding as rich white districts.
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The ruling applies only to state legislative districts, but its reasoning applies equally to North Carolina's congressional districts, which are equally skewed.
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But in the 85033 or so districts that are competitive, in suburbs and exurbs, that mysterious energy tosses the toss-up districts.
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English-language ads are running in McSally's and Hurd's districts as well as in Washington, D.C., and the districts of GOP Reps.
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If school districts like New York and Illinois can make lunch free for all of their students, so can other school districts.
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Sanders ran up some massive margins over Hillary Clinton in congressional districts across the country — often in districts whose representatives endorsed Clinton.
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The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), the outside group supported by House GOP leadership, is investing in three new districts while boosting spending in seven additional districts as well as in the Minneapolis media market, which reaches four competitive House districts.
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They include the 26 Republican-held districts that Mr. Obama carried in 2012, districts where Latinos and Asians make up at least 20 percent of the electorate and districts where at least 25 percent of adults hold a college degree.
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The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), the outside group supported by House GOP leadership, is investing in three new districts while boosting spending in seven additional districts as well as in the Minneapolis media market, which reaches four competitive House districts.
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"Republicans want to tack in minorities to just a few districts, and Democrats want to spread them out among many districts," Li said.
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Most contentious are the three open seats in Republican-held districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016: the 5th, 6th, and 7th districts.
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One idea is to shift to cash balance pensions in which teachers and school districts contribute equally, but districts assume the investment risk.
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The passage of the law grants Turkey's High Electoral Board the authority to merge electoral districts and move ballot boxes to other districts.
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Merely creating districts randomly or optimized for unbiased parameters (such as compactness or equal-population) is no guarantee that those districts are fair.
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And Republican-leaning districts tend to nominate and elect pretty conservative representatives, while Democratic-leaning districts send more liberal representatives to their legislatures.
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It was obviously an issue in certain electoral districts, particularly purple districts in blue states, places like California and New Jersey, New York.
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It is in these centralized live-work-eat-drink districts, districts that are anathema to the dreams of suburban developers, where innovation thrives.
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We built this hand-in-hand with districts, they see the need, and districts have been using this as we've been testing it.
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"The one wrinkle for Texas is that special component to get resources from high-wealth districts to low-wealth districts," Mr. Odden said.
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Judge Thomas Moukawsher wrote that the current system "has left rich school districts to flourish and poor school districts to flounder," not "founder."
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The current system "has left rich school districts to flourish and poor school districts to founder," Judge Thomas Moukawsher said in the ruling.
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At least 50 school districts have been closed across the state, including those in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, the state's two largest districts.
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In 2015, for instance, elimination targets were achieved in 82% of India sub-districts, 97% of Bangladesh sub-districts, and 100% of Nepal.
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The diverse districts in Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, North Carolina, New Mexico and Virginia include more than one-third of the tossup districts.
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The lawsuit, also destined for the Supreme Court, argued that black voters had been packed into nine Senate districts and 19 House districts.
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They even managed to win more seats in heavily Republican districts than the Republicans managed to win in heavily Democratic districts in 2010.
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In adjacent Essex County, a handful of districts gave students a snow day, while schools in neighboring districts opened with a delayed start.
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A map with 10 Trump districts and 8 Clinton districts is easier to imagine, especially if the Democratic-led court redraws the map.
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Clinton carried seven California districts that are currently represented by Republicans, and in those districts, Mr. Valadao may be most difficult to beat.
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In 210, when Ronald Reagan won reelection, 222 percent of districts had split results — mostly districts won by Reagan and a conservative Democrat.
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Since the state has more than 53 districts, candidates could obtain delegates by targeting clusters of districts that they see as good prospects.
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You can see the shift if you divide House Democrats into two halves: those representing the most liberal districts and least liberal districts.
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But the data shows that Republican turnout surged in these Blue Dog districts, while Democratic turnout lagged compared to levels in other districts.
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It helps, too, that an independent commission, rather than legislators, draws California's electoral districts, making its districts more competitive than in other states.
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Google also encouraged school districts that had adopted its tools to hold "leadership symposiums" where administrators could share their experiences with neighboring districts.
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The biggest funding gap between the districts was in Arizona, where students in non-white districts received an average of $7,613 less each.
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Were school districts getting enough money, which might require giving extra money to districts that enroll many low-income, expensive-to-serve students?
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"Certainly in suburban districts political messaging about background checks would be much more popular than some of the more rural districts," Weaver said.
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This will help put districts on equal footing and ensure that the right incentives are in place for districts to welcome transfer students.
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"Not a single one of Dr. Chen's simulated 1,000 plans created nine Republican congressional districts and five Democratic congressional districts," the judges wrote.
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Why it matters: Right now, drawing legislative districts based on voters' party affiliation is legal but drawing districts based on race is not.
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Of the 11.5 million marketplace enrollees, KFF found that 6.3 million live in Republican congressional districts, whereas 5.2 million live in Democratic districts.
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As Vox's Andrew Prokop wrote: Ugly-looking districts don't always point to gerrymandering, but in this case, they do — Republicans tried to pack Democratic-leaning areas together into very few districts while surrounding the state's big cities with districts Republicans would win comfortably.
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Usually gerrymanders involve "flights of cartographic fancy" — outlandishly shaped districts, like the one that gave gerrymandering its name — but Wisconsin's districts were relatively compact.
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According to Mujahid, they now control 54 out of 388 districts across the country, with five districts seized in this year&aposs spring offensive.
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As for districts that interest Bold PAC, Torres said Bold PAC is "focusing" on districts that have "at a minimum" 20% Latino voter registration.
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And state house districts are gerrymandered in a way that would make it very difficult for Hood to win a majority of those districts.
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To draw six districts that have a D+7 lean in Wisconsin, you need the two remaining districts to have an R+21 lean.
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In all, North Carolina Republicans created three incredibly Democratic districts, and then a larger number of districts where Republicans had a somewhat smaller advantage.
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In Nebraska, there are three congressional districts, meaning two votes go to a statewide winner and the three districts each award one electoral vote.
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Of those, 5.9 million live in Republican-held congressional districts and 5.2 million live in districts held by Democrats, per the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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The six districts that closed down don't have enough substitutes to cover the absences, which affect 140,133 students in the two largest districts alone.
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The six districts that closed down don't have enough substitutes to cover the absences, which affect 140,000 students in the two largest districts alone.
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In the new Congress, Democrats will hold about 85033 percent of all suburban districts across the country, and just 19 percent of rural districts.
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While the roughly 85033-member Freedom Caucus is mostly composed of lawmakers from reliably Republican districts, Tuesday Group members tend to represent swing districts.
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Nationwide, districts with high levels of poverty receive $1,200 less per pupil from state and local sources than districts with low levels of poverty.
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States and municipalities rely on the census count not only to draw their congressional and state legislative districts but even to demarcate school districts.
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These districts would consist of the 39 that they won outright plus the 85003 additional districts in which they were the closest runners-up.
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The Democratic Party doesn't need to gerrymander districts to control Congress; they just need a level playing field to compete, with fairly constructed districts.
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I'm lucky to teach in a state, Minnesota, where districts serving the most low-income students get substantially more state funding than wealthier districts.
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At issue were nine state Senate districts and 19 state House districts, as carved out in a plan adopted by the legislature in 2011.
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All three tests are explained here, and you can see how states perform for both congressional districts and state legislative districts on this map.
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How much less total funding do school districts that serve predominantly students of color receive compared to school districts that serve predominantly white students?
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These districts will still be quite competitive, despite Mr. Trump's gains, much as the Sun Belt districts will be tougher for Democrats than Mrs.
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Addressing these disparities — across school districts — is important; but just as important, and less understood, is the unfair distribution of resources within school districts.
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Some of our members in the marginal districts, the swing districts, are better prepared for these fights, frankly, than some members in safer seats.
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Democrats won a majority of districts only in the most urban counties, while Republicans won two out of every three in very rural districts.
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The share of adults with college degrees grew from 22020 to 35.6 percent in Democratic districts; from 26.6 to 27.8 percent in Republican districts.
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The popular vote of states, cities, counties, congressional districts, legislative districts and even wards carry with them the keys to some office or other.
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The foreign-born population in Republican districts has fallen from 10.5% to 8.1%, while it has risen in Democratic districts from 15.4% to 20.1%.
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When districts are too poor to raise enough property taxes to fund schools, the state contributes funds to even the scales with wealthier districts.
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While both disputes involve U.S. House of Representatives districts in the two states, the Michigan case challenges districts in the state legislature as well.
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By packing together highly reliable blocks of Democratic voters, the reasoning goes, the new districts "bleached" surrounding districts —made them whiter and more Republican.
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Those districts were drawn by the Republican state legislature in Wisconsin, and packed Democrats into a smaller number of districts to maximize Republican odds.
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Several districts said they would close on Monday due to the strike including Oklahoma City and Tulsa public schools, the state's two largest districts.
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In Texas, for example, the number of districts arming school staff grew by 72 percent, from 172 districts in February to 303 by December.
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The federal government, however, does not determine how districts recover debts from families, and some districts use punitive measures to settle students' meal accounts.
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The same court found that several state legislative districts were illegally "packed" with Hispanic voters, decreasing the community's voting power in adjacent districts, while others "cracked" Hispanic voter strength by sorting minority voters into a number of districts where their voices would be drowned out.
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"[Trump] makes districts that would have been hard-core tossup districts" into ones that lean Democratic, and gives Democrats "a little bit of a push" in Republican-leaning districts across the country, according to Kelly Ward, the executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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The provision requiring that a candidate win a majority of state House districts increases white control because "the vast majority of House districts have a majority-white population that can easily outvote the smaller number of highly concentrated African-American majority districts," the complaint said.
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The current Ohio congressional map, created under secrecy and full Republican control in 2011, has resulted in districts making little geographic sense, stretching more than 100 miles, and predictable results with 12 reliably Republican districts created by packing Democrats into four solidly blue districts.
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The group has been targeting Democrats in districts that Trump won in 2016 or highly competitive districts in 2020 but, as some Democrats have expressed support for the deal, they have shifted their resources into districts where members haven't made a public statement of support.
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The district court concluded the state's practices were unconstitutional and issued an order to desegregate the school districts by busing students from nearby school districts.
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With a few races still undecided, districts won by Democrats account for 221 percent of America's gross domestic product, districts won by Republicans 20183 percent.
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And they -- Democrats have nominated progressives in the districts, and it&aposs not clear at all that voters in those six-swing districts are progressive.
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See a chart from Quorum of Dem House members in the top R-trending districts, and GOP House members in the top D-trending districts.
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He said the group controlled about six to eight districts a few months ago, but that number was now closer to two to three districts.
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"The districts that the federal court came up with are at least as unconstitutional as the districts that they were pretending to resolve," he said.
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I know how to win in purple districts and red congressional districts like I don't think we've seen in a lot of the other candidates.
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Most Republican incumbents represent such districts, in part because of partisan gerrymandering and the tendency for Democrats to cluster in urban districts and "waste" votes.
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The light blue and light red districts denote districts represented by members (light blue: Democratic, light red: Republican) who voted nay on the farm bill.
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In normal times, the farm bill was ultimately designed to offer benefits to both very rural and very urban districts, essentially subsidized by suburban districts.
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The hoped-for result was that the GOP would lose a few districts by large margins, yet win a majority of districts comfortably and consistently.
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The main problem is determining a fair way to draw districts and on what grounds districts can be challenged as the illegitimate products of gerrymandering.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing 12 school districts in New Jersey, alleging that the districts' policies requiring an identification card are unconstitutional.
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Congressional districts are far more gerrymandered than they were even 20 years ago; Republican members of Congress, by and large, come from very Republican districts.
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A lawsuit from a coalition of school districts led the Kansas Supreme Court to order the Legislature in 2014 to increase funding to poorer districts.
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The redistricting criteria explicitly said the partisan makeup of the congressional delegation should be 10 Republican districts and three Democratic districts, according to court filings.
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Districts that were unable to call in sufficient substitutes were closed, according to the AP, despite efforts from state teachers' groups to reinforce some districts.
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According to NBC News, other school districts in Colorado — in addition to numerous school districts in Oklahoma, Montana and Oregon — have also made the move.
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Between 1987 and 2012, about 1,100 districts in the countries at risk were mapped, leaving a further 1,200 districts that were suspected of having trachoma.
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Democrats had claimed that previous districts were unlawful because they featured too many black voters, diminishing their power across the state and in other districts.
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But Mr. Autor and his colleagues found that in districts with heavy minority representation, similar shocks can push more Democratic districts in the opposite direction.
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The lower court rulings found fault with state legislative districts and U.S. House of Representatives districts drawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature in 2013.
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In most states, legislators get to draw both the congressional districts and the state legislative districts, so state and federal redistricting are very much interrelated.
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California's 12th and 13th districts — in San Francisco and Oakland — have seven delegates each, while the rest of the districts have four, five or six.
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The Democratic representatives from these districts are among the most reliably liberal members in the country, even though they represent some of the wealthiest districts.
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In base districts, it's not as impactful as in the competitive districts that decide whether a party will hold a majority or minority in Congress.
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Several school districts in the Washington region also closed, including in Montgomery County, Md., and Fairfax County, Va. — one of the nation's largest school districts.
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At the same time, GOP strategists warn that even candidates in pro-Clinton districts can't afford to alienate base voters in more liberal-leaning districts.
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Some flipped Republican seats last year, some represent districts carried by Mr. Trump in 2016, and some are in districts held by Republicans until recently.
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The best evidence we have from the 2018 midterms, as compiled by Emory political scientist Alan Abramowitz, suggests that supporting Medicare-for-all cost Democrats about 4.6 percentage points in swing districts; the average Democratic margin was higher in districts where the Democratic candidate didn't back Medicare-for-all, despite those districts being more Republican-leaning overall than districts where pro-Medicare-for-all candidates ran.
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As the population shifts, some House districts are redrawn to meet the constitutional requirement that each of the 435 districts contain roughly equal numbers of voters.
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More popular alternatives included expanding school districts to ensure greater racial and economic diversity -- as well as building more low-income housing in middle income districts.
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Set in the indeterminate future, the world is divided into small districts, and the party that controls the most districts controls policy for the entire planet.
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And in one state (Texas), district delegates are assigned by state Senate districts, not federal congressional districts, with variance in delegate totals from two to 1683.
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Nate Silver at the FiveThirtyEight blog has documented that whereas in 1992, 27 of congressional districts were competitive or "swing" districts, today, that number is 21960.
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The access is given to 4,000 schools around the country, including really large school districts in Chicago and Miami-Dade to smaller districts in rural America.
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In Texas, rather than cutting school districts out of the process, the rules were written to make sure districts always say yes to company incentive requests.
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"I'm hopeful we can find some common ground going forward, because I know this: Democrat districts, like Republican districts, all these economies are struggling," he said.
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A pivot to the center could in turn push away other House Republicans who feared a backlash in their home districts, particularly in strongly conservative districts.
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The nonwhite school districts were reportedly found to be significantly larger than the white school districts but both groups serviced roughly the same number of students.
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It has reduced academic screening in three districts and has started gifted-and-talented programs in four low-income districts that did not already have them.
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Democrats captured 14 of the 18 Republican-held districts with the highest percentages of college-educated voters, and 17 of the 25 best-educated Republican districts.
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The battle is being waged in suburban House districts currently represented by Republicans, arguably the most important districts in the fight for control of the House.
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Federal judges have appointed a special master to review the state's legislative districts, which most believe will increase the number of competitive districts in the legislature.
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While several of those congressional candidates were defeated in suburban districts where voters were apparently disillusioned with Trump, some representatives lost districts Trump carried in 2016.
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The US attorneys are being deployed to the Southern and Western districts of Texas, Southern District of California, and the districts of Arizona and New Mexico.
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The Democrats currently control just five House seats in districts won by Romney four years ago; the Republicans, by contrast, represent 26 districts won by Obama.
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Compared with larger districts, smaller and mostly rural districts were also less likely to fund emergency preparedness training for school faculty and staff or students' families.
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Democrats will compete in all 10 California House districts they are targeting in November, including the hotly contested races in Orange County's 39th and 48th districts.
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There are some districts where Trump might not be as helpful to Republican candidates — like the 24 GOP-held districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
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The fuzziness in the data makes it difficult to assess income growth in many districts, but Reuters verified the growth in those districts was statistically significant.
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By the same date in 2014, the DCCC had aired ads in 24 districts and by that time in 2012, they'd gone up in 26 districts.
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The city would expand the program to an additional six districts, still to be chosen, by the fall of 2020 and to all districts by 33.
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Over that period, the number of Republican-held districts grew from 179 to 200 and the number of Democratic-held districts fell from 20183 to 235.
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Still, Republicans looking ahead to 2020 might worry about similar districts; the tight margin doesn't bode well for competitive seats in suburban districts across the country.
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In 42 percent of 276 districts surveyed by WHO there were only two doctors or less, while in nearly a fifth of districts there were none.
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AKP party officials said they detected voting irregularities in 39 districts, and votes in five of those districts are scheduled to be re-counted today. 4.
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All of the troubled school districts that have been subject to a variety of state interventions in Texas in recent years have been majority-minority districts.
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There are four districts where Trump is leading but could have to split the delegate haul, and only seven districts where Cruz is competing to win.
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Affluent districts were top performers throughout the period, and high-poverty districts, despite receiving more oversight and extra resources, remained near the bottom of the rankings.
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It touches two of the three districts anti-Trump forces think are the best chances to defeat the real-estate tycoon: the 238rd and 7th districts.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee recently released its list of 21 targeted districts — many of which are districts Democrats flipped from red to blue in 21.
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But the ensuing increase in Democratic enthusiasm made dozens of once reliably Republican districts in vastly different areas across the US into competitive seats — from mostly white areas in rural Iowa and Maine to Latino districts in Florida and districts that were both wealthy and working class.
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If Democrats are "stacked" into a few districts in which they have overwhelming majorities, the remaining votes can be spread or "cracked" much more thinly among the remaining districts and enable Republicans to win over a number of districts that can create large advantages independent of votes.
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Red states and blue states By historic standards, the number of representatives in districts that voted for the other party's presidential candidates is already very low: Just 224 Republicans are in districts that preferred Clinton and only 12 Democrats hold seats in districts that backed Trump.
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Democrats pulled off a startling coup in seven California House districts long held by Republicans, took over four New Jersey districts after a wave of Republican retirements, and won four Pennsylvania districts once the state's gerrymandered congressional map was redrawn after a state Supreme Court ruling.
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That population grew by 5 percentage points or more in 22 districts; between 4 and 403 points in 34 districts; from 3 to 4 points in 88 districts; from 22016 to 220 points in 22010 others; and by less than 22018 percentage points in 22020 more.
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Yet revenues from such districts vary widely in Chicago districts vary widely, making them an unreliable financing tool for the schools, according to a prominent fiscal watchdog.
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Why it matters: These districts will only be used for the off year election and 2020, whoever wins will draw the new districts after the next census.
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Though some school districts support, or at least plan to accommodate, the protests, other districts have promised to discipline students who walk out, and even suspend them.
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Districts drawn to influence an election using the criteria of race have to comply with more rules than cases where districts are drawn with partisan criteria alone.
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The slate, which launched yesterday, highlights five "priority flip" districts and several other "potential flip" districts and aims to raise $125,000 before the primaries on June 13.
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And overall, the median household income in Democratic-represented congressional districts was about $22016,22012 more than the median household income in Republican-represented districts ($53,358 to $51,834).
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Overall, districts in the Midwest were less likely to require schools to include specific topics in their crisis preparedness plans than districts in the Northeast and South.
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Both are newly shaped districts that are now far more favorable to Democrats, and they largely line up with the districts currently represented by retiring Republican Reps.
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The problem with current rules, DOJ says, is that judges can only issue warrants to search property in their districts, or in crimes that involve their districts.
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Other districts were specifically designed to "crack" Hispanic voter strength by parcelling minority voters into a number of districts where their voice in each would be faint.
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Plus, as Daily Kos has documented, the GOP is winning by a narrower margin in red districts, and Dems are winning their districts by much higher margins.
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The plaintiffs had argued the state's plans packed African-Americans in districts already with a high percentage of black voters, thus diluting their presence in neighboring districts.
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Player A maps a state into districts; Player B then peruses those districts, and selects one to freeze — no changes can now be made to that district.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over whether Virginia and North Carolina illegally packed black voters into certain districts to diminish their voting power in other districts.
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"These districts for the specials are Donald Trump's handpicked districts," Dan Sena, DCCC executive director, said of the special election races on a recent call with reporters.
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It is slated to run in 32 congressional districts, including many held by GOP lawmakers whose districts are being targeted by Democrats in next year's midterm elections.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) will be playing offense in those 31 districts as well as looking to protect the three GOP lawmakers in Clinton districts.
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Fifteen years ago, Colorado passed a law that allows school districts to choose if they want to let their staff carry, and over 30 school districts have.
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And even if a Democrat and a Republican advance to the next round in these districts, it's no guarantee that Democrats will win all of these districts.
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The YSK will also be given the authority to merge electoral districts and move ballot boxes to other districts, officials of both parties told a news conference.
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There are districts that allow transgender students to use the facilities that match their identities, and districts that prohibit it, but no definitive count of either group.
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Republican women incumbents are more likely to be in Lean or Likely Republican districts as opposed to Democratic incumbent nominees who are all in Solid Democratic districts.
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Texas follows with six Democratic candidates outraising Republicans, including three running for seats in districts that Clinton won and three who are in more solidly GOP districts.
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The Washington Post notes that the margin does not grow statistically in battleground districts, with the lead for the Democrats at 12 percentage points in those districts.
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From those 25 retirements, 17 members hail from districts where the presidential vote for Trump in 2016 was below the national average in districts won by Republicans.
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Leaders of Minnesota's suburban 2nd and 3rd districts are walking back their anti-gun control ideals as they work to grab moderate votes in increasingly progressive districts.
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That can make turnout an even bigger problem for Democrats here than in the other districts, particularly the California districts where white voters lean pretty heavily Republican.
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In Florida's 22nd and 23rd Districts, the only two contested congressional districts inside Broward, the undervote was just as large as it was in the Senate race.
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The North Carolina decision was about state legislative districts rather than congressional districts, so it doesn't directly impact the Democrats' chances of retaining the House in 2020.
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Gavin Newsom has proposed a tax of about $140 million on urban water districts and the agriculture industry to pay for redevelopment in districts serving unsafe water.
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Nationwide, state and local governments spend 224.3 percent less per pupil on poor school districts, which get $2500,250 per student, than on rich districts, which get $10,721.
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That includes live polls currently underway in California's 45th and 48th Congressional Districts, in addition to dozens already completed nationally and in the state's most competitive districts.
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We may have won the House back in 93, but only by winning 31 districts like mine that President Trump also won in 2016: moderate, suburban districts.
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It will be shown in 28503 Democratic-held districts, seven in Spanish and the rest in Spanglish, and in eight GOP-held districts, four in each format.
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Because of the cuts, some rural districts have disbanded, some schools have closed and, last spring, six districts ended the school year days early to cut costs.
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Democrats won back two congressional districts in Minnesota in the 2018 midterms even as they lost two other districts in the state, highlighting the turbulent politics there.
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It is slated to run in 32 congressional districts, including many held by GOP lawmakers whose districts are being targeted by Democrats in next year's midterm elections.
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Voters in those districts sued, saying that lawmakers had run afoul of the Constitution by packing too many black voters into the districts, diminishing their voting power.
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Royce and Issa's districts are both in expensive television markets -- further stretching national Republicans who are on defense across dozens of districts in the 2018 midterm elections.
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But there are also a number of House battleground districts where the black vote exceeds or approaches double digits — districts where African-American turnout could prove vital.
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Where I did find agreement, understandably, was from Democrats from districts where the vocal opposition of the small banks in their states or districts could be damaging.
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Studies also suggest that students tend to transfer to higher-performing districts and that open enrollment policies could be especially beneficial for kids leaving high-poverty districts.
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A handful of those California districts have a large African-American population, but almost every one is at least 10 percent Latino, and Latinos dominate some districts.
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Do national polls for gun-related proposals mask so much diversity across districts and states that gun control is a losing issue for Democrats in swing districts?
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That essentially tracks the process of gerrymandering that involves cramming (or "stacking" in gerrymandering parlance) as many opposition voters into as few districts as possible, conceding those districts but wasting the votes because the opposition voters in those districts are considerably more than needed to win, and spreading (or "cracking") the remaining votes in districts dominated by friendly voters but by slimmer majorities (thus wasting fewer friendly voters).
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The fact that blue districts have higher shares of each than red districts helps explain why Democrats tend to focus more than Republicans on health care and government assistance to the poor — and why these topics will likely resonate with voters in blue districts more throughout the midterm cycle.
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The regulation would dramatically increase federal control over spending at many of the nation's 14,000 school districts and force some districts to increase spending at low-income schools.
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HB 1362 prevents school districts from adopting restroom policies; SB 6 creates civil and criminal penalties and directs the state attorney general to sue school districts for violations.
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In districts that award five delegates, the average gun violence prevention score is 68.4, Hagner said; Democrats in districts with eight delegates have an average score of 78.3.
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In Colorado, voters approved two independent redistricting commissions overwhelmingly, one for congressional districts (71 percent to 21) and one for state legislative districts (also 26 percent to 21).
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HB46 would have made those anti-discrimination measures for LGBT people illegal in cities and school districts, while HB50 would have made them illegal in school districts only.
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Among them: Trump country All seven come from districts Donald Trump won in 2016, and four of the seven are from districts Mitt Romney also carried in 2012.
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"We're not ruling out red and purple districts, but it's no secret that the districts where we performed really well" in 2018 were mostly already held by Democrats.
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The challenger's argument would not apply to congressional districts because the Constitution is clear that districts for the U.S. House of Representatives must be drawn based on population.
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From 1990 to 2012, funding for the bottom fifth of school districts (measured by household income) increased by 50%, bringing them roughly in line with high-income districts.
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Of 25 districts in Helmand, five, including the key districts of Musa Qala and Sangin, are now controlled by the Taliban, with another five or more being contested.
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Here's a look at how many people could feel the impact in districts that voted for President Trump, compared to those in districts that voted for Hillary Clinton.
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While some progressive insurgents in blue districts made gains in this year's midterms, a slew of leftist firebrands running in red and purple districts fared poorly on Tuesday.
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Democrats face the prospect of getting locked out of up to three competitive districts in November, which would reduce the party's margin for error in key districts elsewhere.
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"As of May, our assessment was that approximately nine districts were under insurgent control and about 27 districts were under some level of insurgent influence," said Brig. Gen.
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Single family housing construction starts were higher in a majority of districts, and activity in non-residential real estate expanded in many districts, while new motor sales declined.
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In Colorado, voters approved two independent redistricting commissions overwhelmingly, one for congressional districts (71 percent to 29) and one for state legislative districts (also 71 percent to 29).
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Between the lines: Some of the key districts they're targeting are to defend seats held by incumbent House Republicans in districts Hillary Clinton won in 2016, like Reps.
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"The people should be able to choose their representatives in competitive districts instead of the representatives being able to choose the people in lopsided, partisan districts," Cooper added.
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Community districts* in New York City with the highest proportion of women who gave birth in 29003, and how prices in those districts changed from 2012 to 2017.
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