Yes, which makes all the handwringing over this so silly

I'm so glad the "marginalized" people of Fremont were able to be kept together (eye roll) because we all know highly paid renters are somehow better than highly paid homeowners (double eye roll). Regardless look forward to continuing the path of taking back Seattle from the idealogues next November (looking at you Herbold, Sawant, Strauss and Lewis). Unfortunately Morales is probably untouchable.

So, in an analysis of redistricting Council seats, the data points selected were exclusively executive-branch positions, from an election in which all ballots were for city-wide positions.

Worse yet, the 2021 general election results show how much of on outlier it was: “…only 64% of the new D7 would have voted for pro-business Mayor Bruce Harrell rather than 67% of voters in the old D7.”

Read that again: “….only 64% of the new D7 would have voted for … Mayor Bruce Harrell…”

“Only” a crushing citywide landslide victory, instead of a full two-thirds of the vote?!? Results that hopelessly one-sided completely lack value for this analysis.

As the old map dates from ten years ago, we could instead look at data from district elections since, which were closer. I’m going to speculate that was not done because that would show election results changing as the map changes, thus supporting the charge of blatant gerrymandering with the current map.

@2 Why is Morales untouchable? I suspect you are correct but wonder about the reasons. I think she, along with Herbold, Sawant, and eventually Mosqueda need to o go, along with district representation. Let's ditch district representation. It has been a disaster.

@4/5 would love to see it but I think Morales is pretty safe because she plays a good game. She doesn’t alienate people like Sawant and delivered on some transit projects. D2 is prob the most progressive district after 3 so I don’t see a moderate winning the seat. Maybe someone from the ID could take her on but I think it’s a high bar.

@2 Fremont is actually a mix of incomes and rent/own as well as ethnic backgrounds. And even national origin. Which you'd know if you'd ever explored it.

Magnolia is more highly segregated.