Proposed congressional districts would make reelection harder for McIntyre
Political observers said Friday that McIntyre, the eight-term Democrat from Lumberton, would have a more difficult time keeping his seat in the new district, drawn by Republicans who control the N.C. General Assembly.
The new 7th Congressional District, according to the first-draft map, would include all of New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties. It would also include all of Columbus and Bladen counties, as well as the eastern half of Robeson, McIntyre's home county.
The district would also extend farther up the coast than the current boundaries, taking in all of Onslow and the southern half of Carteret counties, which are both Republican-leaning areas.
Meanwhile, Democratic parts of Cumberland, Duplin and Robeson counties have been drawn out of the district, adding to the uncertainties McIntyre would face if he runs for re-election in the district in 2012.
In 2008, 55.3 percent of voters in the new district chose John McCain over Barack Obama for president. In McIntyre's current district, 52.2 percent chose McCain, a difference of 3 percentage points.
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Should this proposed map pass muster with the courts and become the final map, I will welcome Rowan, Davidson, Randolph and Robeson counties into the 8th District and fight for them as I have fought for the current 8th District," Rep.
difficult time keeping his seat in the new district, drawn by Republicans who control the NC General Assembly. The new 7th Congressional District, according to the first-draft map, would include all of New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties.
The 8th District would take in more GOP-leaning Rowan and Davidson counties and leave out more than 70000 Charlotte-area residents that gave Kissell's district a more Democratic slant, according to map data. Surry and Stokes are added to the 13th
The district, drawn in response to the 2010 census, also includes small portions of Chatham and Lee counties, and a somewhat bigger piece of Harnett County. GOP map-drawers in the state General Assembly also opted to continue placing part of Wake
It adds part of Democratic-leaning Robeson County but also Republican-leaning portions of Rowan, Davidson and Randolph counties. "It is unfortunate that the legislature has gerrymandered the Congressional maps," Kissell said in a statement. "But .
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SALISBURY — Rowan County would lose a longtime representative and gain two new ones in the proposed Congressional redistricting plan released Friday by Republican leaders in the N.C. General Assembly.
While a state senator who represents Rowan in Raleigh says the new map is driven purely by population figures, political observers say it strengthens current Republican lawmakers and weakens several Democrats, including one whose newly drawn district would include part of Rowan.
Under the proposal, U.S. Rep. Howard Coble’s 6th District would recede from Rowan, while fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx would see her 5th District stretched to include northwestern Rowan.
The new plan would also put most of southern and eastern Rowan in the 8th Congressional District now represented by U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell, a Democrat. U.S. Rep. Mel Watt’s 12th District would still extend through Rowan, but would lose ground in the eastern part of the county and cut a narrower swath through the center.
The 12th District would continue to snake from Charlotte north along Interstate 85 to Greensboro and take in portions of Winston-Salem. The district’s black voting-age population would increase from the current 44 percent to just over 50 percent.
Jay Parmley, executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party, said the districts represented by the state’s two black representatives — Watt is one — were packed to benefit Republicans in adjoining districts.
“I would call it Republican greed,” he said.
Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, and state Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, chairmen of the Legislature’s redistricting committees, said in a statement the plan “fully complies with applicable federal and state law.”
“While we have not been ignorant of the partisan impacts of the districts we have created, we have focused on ensuring that the districts will be more competitive than the districts created by the 2001 Legislature," the joint statement said.
New U.S. House districts are drawn every 10 years based on census figures and under federal law each district must have essentially the same number of people living in them. But the districts are drawn by the party in charge of the state legislature, and for the first time in more than a century in North Carolina, that’s the Republican Party.
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