Sentence examples for blue district from inspiring English sources

Lee Terry, a Nebraska Republican, now represents a "blue" district.

Redistricting has reconfigured the historically blue district to include conservative strongholds, while losing New Bedford, a Democratic bastion.

He's running in a solidly blue district including part of Chicago and its suburbs that has been held by Rep. Dan Lipinski, a Democrat, for years.

Margolies faces state Sen. Daylin Leach, state Rep. Brendan Boyle and physician Val Arkoosh in the Democratic primary to represent a very blue district in northeast Philadelphia and the city's northern suburbs.

(A typical way this works is that the boundaries are placed in such a way to cram as many Democratic voters as possible into one solid blue district, while spreading Republicans out across multiple districts to give GOP candidates races they can easily win).

Many of these nominees are competing in extremely red or blue districts, and might ordinarily have little chance of winning.

The two exceptions are the Southwest Side's Dan Lipinski and downstate's Jerry Costello, who both represent less "blue" districts.

Republicans elected in traditionally blue districts like this one are feeling the tug between their need to attract Democrats again and the omnipresent threat of someone more to the right waiting in the primary wings.

But they then realized that their own representatives were either Democrats in blue districts or Republicans in red districts.

Democrats, on the other hand, must only defend ten seats, eight of which are anchored in strong blue districts.

Groups that have exploded since the election, like Swing Left, Flippable and the Sister District Project, are funneling money and volunteer resources from blue districts to where it's needed more.