{"id":13601,"date":"2021-10-06T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13601"},"modified":"2021-10-05T22:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:26:27","slug":"back-to-the-drawing-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/back-to-the-drawing-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the drawing board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/congmockmap25.png\" width=\"459\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Senate dropped more work on the LSA yesterday by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/10\/05\/legislature-rejects-proposed-state-political-map-redistricting-iowa-congressional-districts\/5818668001\/\">rejecting the first proposed redistricting maps<\/a>. The above map wouldn&#8217;t qualify for what the agency has been ordered to come up with \u2014 a total variance of less than 99, since each map must be better than the previous. But it&#8217;s very hard to get one district less than 99 off the ideal, let alone four of them.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the first set was rejected for putting Linn and Johnson counties in the same congressional district or for creating too many incumbent-on-incumbent matchups in the Legislature, well, you&#8217;ll have to ask the state senators.<\/p>\n<p>(In Mock 24 I could come up with two districts with variances of 60 and -2, but kept busting on the other two, usually around Kossuth County.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Senate dropped more work on the LSA yesterday by rejecting the first proposed redistricting maps. The above map wouldn&#8217;t qualify for what the agency has been ordered to come up with \u2014 a total variance of less than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/back-to-the-drawing-board\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13602,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions\/13602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}