BREAKING: Maryland's Senate President Bill Ferguson REJECTS calls to redistrict in a letter to other lawmakers

[FBaggins]

11. Thanks! Yes - the ES is solidly red

with maybe one purple county as an exception.

I just can’t see a way to get enough blue into there without endangering more than we gain. And that’s before the question of whether it’s even possible within their redistricting rules.

Gerrymandering almost necessarily “packs” your opponent into a limited number of districts. Cracking that last one is tough without a more homogeneously distributed majority (like some of the New England states). MD’s ES is not only too red… but the geography makes it hard to connect a new district to the surplus of blue voters