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Mock 20: Corridor compaction<\/strong> Mock 21: Republican trap<\/strong> I don’t know if it’s a personal oversight or just the way the numbers break, but I ended up with more river-t0-river (E-W) than border-to-border (N-S) districts. See Mock 20, above. At the same time, I’ve always started working outward from Des Moines and the Linn\/Scott areas, and once I do that, it gets very difficult not<\/em> to just start plugging in the lower-population counties heading westward.<\/p>\n UPDATE 9\/22: Fixed slight Scott County population error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mock 20: Corridor compaction District 1: Democrat Liz Mathis has a clear-the-field list of endorsements for whatever district includes Cedar Rapids. Christina Bohannan \u2014 who primaried a long-time representative in Iowa’s most Democratic state House district \u2014 has received former … Continue reading
\nDistrict 1:<\/strong> Democrat Liz Mathis has a clear-the-field list of endorsements for whatever district includes Cedar Rapids. Christina Bohannan \u2014 who primaried a long-time representative<\/a> in Iowa’s most Democratic state House district \u2014 has received former U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack’s endorsement<\/a> for whatever district includes Iowa City. So what happens if Iowa City and Cedar Rapids get smushed together in my third-best individual mock district? (Local note: Iowa and Tama counties are, by a decent margin, the smallest here.)
\nDistrict 2:<\/strong> The bulk of the population here is on the east end, but the spread provides a seriously safe R seat.
\nDistrict 3:<\/strong> Hey, a Des Moines-based district that doesn’t touch a state line!
\nDistrict 4:<\/strong> Extremely safe R, perhaps mitigating the spread across four media markets. After Woodbury County (Sioux City), Dallas is the second-most populous, then Cerro Gordo (Mason City), and numbers 4-5-6, Boone-Bremer-Plymouth, are widely distributed.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/congmockmap21.png\")
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\nDistrict 1:<\/strong> Ashley Hinson would face a mountain with many counties outside the KCRG viewing area, reducing name recognition.
\nDistrict 2:<\/strong> An open seat ripe for a Waterloo-based candidate. (Former Rep. Abby Finkenauer, D-Dubuque, has her eyes on the Senate<\/a> in 2022.)
\nDistrict 3:<\/strong> Again, just like my very first map, an incumbent-on-incumbent battle with Ottumwa and Des Moines together. Henry County sticks out very awkwardly here.
\nDistrict 4:<\/strong> A wraparound to Mason City and a jut into Creston. This is one of my more western-oriented 4ths, the district that almost always was “the rest” after creating the first three.<\/p>\n