Candidates for "safe districts" are determined by the central party office.
How do you turn a safe district into a competitive one?
After redistricting, the state legislature gave her a more safe Democratic district.
"You can say this: They spent $400,000 in a safe Republican district, to hold her to 44 percent."
Hackett attracted national attention to what had always been considered a safe Republican district.
The problem, as he sees it, is that the current leaders and those who hope to replace them come from safe districts.
Most of the House managers are from extremely safe districts, in any case.
Less than two weeks before election day we were due for a meeting at which the safe districts would be parceled out.
England's still trying to create safe districts for its women.
The figure was at least twice that given senators in "safe" districts.
