{"id":8286,"date":"2011-10-12T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2011-10-12T12:05:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:05:57","slug":"redistricting-olympics-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/12\/redistricting-olympics-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Redistricting Olympics Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Common Cause Massachusetts announced the results of their Redistricting Olympics contest last week with gold, silver, and bronze medals going to young people (and a few not so young) across the state who used their website to draw House, Senate, and Congressional maps.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Results of the contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kintera.org\/TR.asp?a=qvI2IfMZJsI0KlJ&amp;s=mlL5IcNWKnJ0IiMXJuF&amp;m=hjIXIcOTLnITKdL\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see their maps and to read about the contest and the winners.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congressional Map Gold Medal Winner: Nick Rossi<\/p>\n<p>Nick came to work on this project as part of a larger study that he is doing this semester as an undergraduate student at Clark University on minority influenced districts in Massachusetts. Nick is a senior at Clark University, majoring in Geography with a minor in Political Science. He plans to graduate this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The judges felt that Nick&#8217;s map presented the best balance of low deviation, municipal integrity, and representation for cohesive communities of interest, including minority communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Cause Massachusetts announced the results of their Redistricting Olympics contest last week with gold, silver, and bronze medals going to young people (and a few not so young) across the state who used their website to draw House, Senate, and Congressional maps. Click here to see their maps and to read about the contest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}