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Competitive. and so republicans essentially are playing keepaway in a lot of these large states that they control, and the result is that primaries are going to be tantamount to election in over 85% or 95% of districts next ye year. >> how about illinois? i want another example of a democratic state. >> sure. well, illinois right now is 13-5 for the democrats, but under this new map the democrats drew, it's likely to be 14-3. now, when you see safe seats drawn, parties don't have the incentive to recruit candidates with broad appeal. that means the primary, which matters much more than the gen...

And so republicans essentially are playing keepaway in a lot of these large states that they control, and the result is that primaries are going to be tantamount to election in over 85% or 95% of districts next year. >> how about illinois? i want another example of a democratic state. >> sure. well, illinois right now is 13-5 for the democrats, but under this new map the democrats drew, it's likely to be 14-3. now, when you see safe seats drawn, parties don't have the incentive to recruit candidates with broad appeal. that means the primary, which matters much more than the general election in...

Then drew in very dense concentrations of democrats in the washington, d.c. area. so they managed to change the 6th congressional district from a reliably republican district into a reliably democratic district. >> the democrats won the congressional district here and would keep democrats safe for a long time to come. a congressman, we can look at a number of his votes he has done in the house of representatives on our behalf here in washington county. i can tell you that it doesn't sit well with the majority of the folks here. >> the republican plaintiffs in the maryland case pretty rightly a...