But in the end, the vote wasn’t even close: 31-19, with 21 Republicans joining all 10 Democrats in opposition. In fact, more GOP Hoosiers voted against the measure than for it.

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    The proposed map would have targeted Indiana’s two Democratic U.S. representatives to hand all 9 seats to the GOP.  Around 45% of Indiana’s party-affiliated voters are Democrats.

    So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.

    Sounds to me like they approved a GOP-gerrymandered map.

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      They’ve been in control of the state for over 20 years, so yes. They carved out 2 tiny circles around 2 deep blue areas, and made the other districts much larger in comparison and diluted the blue votes there. I think Mitc Daniels was the last GOP governor (2005-2014) that wasn’t a total POS and he was still fairly regressive.