The most interesting race to watch this year in Alabama will be for the newly drawn 2nd Congressional District.
The new seat was drawn by the federal courts to create a second majority-minority district in Alabama. Right now, we have six Republicans and one Democrat representing Alabama in Washington, D.C. If a Democrat wins the seat, we will have five Republicans and two Democrats on the Potomac in 2025. The new seat includes all of Montgomery and extends through the Black Belt and gathers most of the Black voters in Mobile.
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The race to fill the new open 2nd Congressional District seat is very crowded. When the federal courts drew the new lines, they strived to make sure that the new district would favor a Democrat. The proof in the pudding was an index attached to the plan presented by the special master selected by the court, which revealed that in 16 of the last 17 general elections a Democrat would have won this seat had it been on the ballot.