April 07, 2009 09:33 PM UTC

How will 2010's Redistricting affect Colorado?

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• by: wade norris

(Hehehehehehe. – promoted by Laughing Boy)

update: despite this diary’s title, maybe we should have a Colorado Pols’ Olympics…

Redistricting is something that I have been eagerly awaiting. It won’t affect the 2010 Congressional elections, but will change how Colorado is represented from 2011 onward.

The Denver Post’s Burt Hubbard explains redistricting in 2010.

Every 10 years, new census counts revamp the nation’s political structure with the population figures used to determine which states lose or gain congressional seats.

In addition, state elected officials rely on the counts to redraw congressional boundaries to give each one an equal number of residents.

Read on for how it might all shake down….

here is the speculation:

Ken Bickers , chairman of the political science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said that if Democrats have their way, they will try to move Democratic neighborhoods out of Coffman’s district into Perlmutter’s district.

“What they want to do is pack Republicans into a small number of districts,” Bickers said. “What happens is Coffman’s district becomes the safest in the state.”

Other Coffman constituents could be moved south into fellow Republican Doug Lamborn’s El Paso County district, he said.

If the Republicans are in control, they will want to move Republicans from Coffman’s district to Perlmutter’s District 7 seat, said political analyst Eric Sondermann.

Democrats have an edge in registration in the district.

“Five or 10,000 additional Republicans in that 7th seat would be huge,” Sondermann said. He said that would give Republicans a chance to retake the seat if Perlmutter left office.

That’s the official opinions,

what’s your opinion – will Republicans get back in control or will the state go ‘bluer’ in representation?

Which districts will change party affiliation? Who’s in and who’s out?

And do Republicans really have a chance to regain control in either state house?  

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