Political battle over Md. redistricting over, but legal fight concerning minorities ready to take over

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Maryland's General Assembly on Thursday approved — and Gov. Martin O'Malley signed into law — a partisan plan designed to pick up another House seat for Democrats by anchoring most of the state's eight congressional districts in suburban Washington, where minority populations are surging.

Most dramatically, the plan stretches a rural Western Maryland district held by the state's senior Republican lawmaker nearly 200 miles from the border of West Virginia to the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County to pick up African American, Asian, Hispanic and other reliably Democratic voters.

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Philip Kennicott 21 Oct, 2011

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