Lines on the map for the win.
Via the NYT: Lauren Boebert, Far-Right Firebrand, Is Switching House Districts in Colorado.
Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District is significantly more conservative than the Third, and securing the Republican nomination would place Ms. Boebert in a strong position to win in a seat where Mr. Buck earned 60 percent of the vote in 2022. Ms. Boebert barely won re-election that year, pulling ahead of her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch, with roughly 500 votes.
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An earlier analysis by the Cook Political Report had rated the race for Ms. Boebert’s current seat in 2024 as a tossup. By contrast, the race in the general election in the Fourth Congressional District is not considered competitive.
This is just another data point in my ongoing discussion of the value of lines on the map in our “representative” system. Politicians can, in many ways, including in this situation, seek to choose their voters, rather than the other way around.
