From the New York Times:

“The more the district leans right, the more the concern for the incumbent becomes the primary challenge,” said Chris Jankowski, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee. “But the broader Republican strategy is to maximize gains for your party within the extent that law allows.”

Republicans have a few slam-dunks. In North Carolina, they have gained control of both chambers of the state legislature for the first time since the 1800s, and thus control of redistricting. Partly because of favorable district lines, Democrats there lost fewer seats than their colleagues in other states in 2010.

But under Republican rule, the map revisions in the state are all but certain to result in new district lines that trip up the Democratic incumbents, Representatives Larry Kissell, Mike McIntyre and Heath Shuler.

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