COLUMBUS: The Ohio House will return to Columbus today to vote on a revised congressional map that the chamber’s Republican leader says will address the concerns of Democrats, who have been seeking a repeal of a newly adopted map they say unfairly favors the GOP.The compromise plan also would reinstitute a single primary in 2012, rather than separate March and June contests lawmakers had approved.House Speaker William Batchelder’s spokesman, Mike Dittoe, said Wednesday it was unclear whether there would be enough votes to pass the new map, but the speaker felt the time had come.“The speaker believes the new map is responsive to their requests that they have made over the last several weeks,” Dittoe said. “He believes that, given that and given the situation we’re in, he wants to bring it to an up-or-down vote.”Senate Republican leaders have been apprised of the negotiations in the House, and they are prepared to bring back in senators for a vote, possibly Friday, said Senate spokesman John McClelland.As Democrats gather voter signatures for a ballot question to challenge the first map the Republican-led legislature passed, district boundaries, congressional campaigns and the calendar for a presidential election year in a key battleground state are all in limbo.A message was left with Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern seeking comment. He vowed Tuesday to move forward with a campaign to get the Republican-favoring map thrown out by voters.U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who faces a primary fight against a fellow Democrat, Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, was placing robo-calls to state lawmakers asking for favorable treatment under the embattled GOP redistricting plan.One Democrat targeted by Kucinich, state Rep. Timothy DeGeeter of Parma, said Wednesday that he received such a call at his home and fewer than a dozen phone calls from residents who contacted him in response to Kucinich’s overture.Kucinich, a former Cleveland mayor and two-time long-shot presidential candidate, thinks he can win in the district proposed by Republicans, a plan that would pit him against Kaptur.Jim Ruvolo, a former state Democratic party chairman and an informal adviser to Kaptur for many years, criticized Kucinich for supporting a plan designed to help Republicans solidify their hold on vulnerable seats and lump Democrats into four of the state’s new 16 congressional districts.“Clearly Dennis cares about nothing but himself,” Ruvolo said. “It’s unbelievable.”Kucinich says more than half the registered Democrats in the new, GOP-drawn district that merges his area with Kaptur’s come from his old district. The new district would stretch along Lake Erie from Cleveland to Toledo.The redrawn lines due out today give Kaptur more of an edge over Kucinich by including more precincts from her Toledo-area district, sources with knowledge of the map told the Associated Press. The individuals requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the lines.Batchelder, R-Medina, has been in compromise talks with Democrats, including members of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus, to try to line up seven votes needed to pass a new map in time to avoid holding two separate primary elections in 2012.State Rep. Alicia Reece, a black Cincinnati Democrat, said talks were expected to continue late Wednesday night and this morning.“I’m hopeful that behind-the-scenes negotiations will lead to something that can have bipartisan support,” she said. “It’s a moving target.”The Ohio Democratic Party launched a signature-gathering effort Tuesday to put the Republican-approved map up for repeal next year; as of Tuesday, the all-Democrat black caucus stood with the party.Dittoe said Batchelder believes avoiding separate primaries is in the best interest of both parties, and Reece agreed. “I’m getting a lot of push back in my district about the two primaries. People want to see that go away,” she said.DeGeeter said he told callers motivated by Kucinich’s appeal that “things are fluid here [in Columbus]. Obviously, we want to have a Cuyahoga County west-side district.”DeGeeter said Kucinich’s secondhand lobbying did not bother him.“That was Congressman Kucinich’s decision. I’ll talk to residents, constituents any time,” he said.Kucinich hasn’t commented. A message was left Wednesday at his campaign office.An analysis by voter groups of the map passed in September suggests that 12 of the 16 congressional districts favor Republicans; the other four lean Democratic.Ohio is losing two congressional districts because of slow population growth; both parties stand to lose one seat each.Associated Press writers Thomas J. Sheeran, John Seewer and Ann Sanner contributed to this report.