Congressional boundaries. This was a welcome result for Republicans, who now control three of the state's four seats after two pickups in 2010. Republicans had been wary of sending a legislative-drawn map to the Obama Justice Department for Voting Rights Act preclearance, but a map drawn by federal judges bypasses this step. The most dramatic change in the map wasn't even that dramatic at all: the underpopulated African-American majority 2nd CD picked up racially mixed Panola, Yalobusha, and Grenada counties from the 1st CD, but remains heavily Democratic.
The new map can be found here.
New District Baselines
MS-01: Alan Nunnelee (R) – Northeast: Tupelo, Southaven, Columbus
Solid Republican. Small-town Europa Mayor Henry Ross, who hails from the remote southern tip of the new 1st CD, is once again challenging Nunnelee in the GOP primary, railing against Nunnelee's support for a debt limit increase and trying to leverage Nunnelee's seat on the Appropriations Committee - rare for a freshman - to his own advantage. But Ross's problem may be that this line of attack isn't new: Ross railed against
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