Dan, this reminds me of one of the other things I thought was interesting about the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s 12th — that district completely changed location in the new map. It used to be a large vertical hunk of northern Pennsylvania stretching up from just outside Harrisburg to the New York border. Now? It doesn’t even touch its former boundaries and is instead made up of Pittsburgh and its environs in the western part of the state. Entirely different electorate than the last time. Which you can tell by the complete switch from being solidly Republican to solidly Democratic. Spotlight PA’s Kate Huangpu wrote that the map is “as similar as possible to the current congressional map, with nearly 90 percent of residents staying in the same district.” But boy, is the 12th ever in the outlier 10 percecnt.
