I need to temper my prior exultant remark.

An Indy Star account from reporter Marissa Meador noted that the map came caveats: “It’s unclear if this would have actually played out in practice. Bayh wasn’t on the ballot for a U.S. House seat, so he’s presumably meant to stand in for a generic Democrat running for U.S. House in this analysis. But the dynamics of each congressional race are different, and not all Democrats would have necessarily performed as well as Bayh. But Republican performance also would have been poor, it appears, when simply just analyzing congressional race margins. Under the current map, each Indiana congressional race swung an average of 22 points to the left from 2024 to 2026.”

Retired journalist Dave Bangert.

Bangert, a former nemesis, is now my hero. His locally-focused Substack brings news the struggling local Gannet paper doesn’t.