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Originally Posted by wdmso
Saw this the other night Wyoming
Rhode Island’s largest county has more people than Wyoming. RI
1.06 million 2 seats
Wyoming. sentor only has like 200,000 in his district total population
579,315 1 seat
•South Dakota
869,666 1 seat
#^&
•North Dakota
755,393 1 seat
•Delaware 1 seat
961,939
Should these states even get a seat ? or is this everyone gets a participation trophy .. or just another example of a rigged system like gerrymandering
Top 10 Most Gerrymandered States
1. North Carolina 2. Maryland 3. Pennsylvania 4. West Virginia 5: kentucky 6. Louisiana 7. Utah 8. Texas 9. Arkansas 10. Ohio
substantial effects of gerrymandering. In North Carolina, the GOP won 53 percent of the votes and 77 percent of the seats (10 out of 13). In Pennsylvania, they won 53 percent of the votes and 72 percent of the seats (13 out of 18). In Ohio, they won 56 percent of the vote and 75 percent of seats.
North carolina Last year, Democrats won nearly 50% of the vote, yet they hold only 38% of the seats in the state House and 30% of the seats in the state Senate.
And some here think Dems play dirty ?
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OK Wayne, 5th grade civics lesson.
And Rhode Island is on the cusp of losing one of its Representatives due to slight decrease in population and increase in population in other places. So like Wyoming, Vermont, and Montana they would have only one. See, Representatives, ahem, REPRESENTATIVES, represent states by the population. The more population, the more reps. This is fair to the states (and by extension cities) with large populations, particularly expanding populations.
The Senate on the other hand equally represents each state so that California cannot swamp Rhode Island.
This balance is both beautiful and well thought out. It is fair to all.
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Originally Posted by wdmso
Should these states even get a seat ? or is this everyone gets a participation trophy .. or just another example of a rigged system like gerrymandering
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Did you really mean that? Seriously?
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
It's the only thing that keeps rural america from disappearing
This is a graphic from 2013 but it has not changed much
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nyti...advantage.html
At that time it ranged from California with 19 million per senator to Wyoming with 310,000.
They don't need to screw with that, remember almost all of us are residents of small states.
Term limits and campaign contribution limits are what we need, take the profit out of politics |
Pete - back to Gulag for not parroting party line !!