Politico today looks at the question of redistricting and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio. Kucinich, the unabashedly liberal former mayor of Cleveland, has been sounding the alarm bells over his district being eliminated for some time now, an effort to raise money from liberals.
But it would not be easy for the GOP legislators who redistrict Ohio to eliminate Kucinich’s district (at right, in pink) altogether in a way that gives them an advantage. The easiest district to eliminate is the snake-like district of Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio (in purple), which has two separate Democratic population centers and some solidly Republican territory in between. Even if Kucinich inherits some of her territory, she lives far enough away that it would take a map like this one to throw them together:
