Cannot think of a name wrote:Bombadil wrote:It's odd how little it's pointed out that the Republicans have a massive advantage when it comes to representation, off 50% of the vote they have 55% representation in Congress, and that's beyond the fact Trump lost by 3M votes yet still won the election.
It's across the board..
Midsized red states have on average a considerably higher percent level of misrepresentation—in these states, while 58 percent of the votes went to Republicans, they took 76 percent of the seats—an 18 percentage point difference that translates into 34 seats. Comparatively, in the midsized blue states, 59 percent of votes were for Democrats, who obtained 72 percent of seats—a 13 percentage point difference that translates into 11 seats. Furthermore, red states make up nine of the 13 states with an excess of 20 points or higher misrepresentation.
Instead of messaging 'oh this is just an attack on immigrants', which I doubt resonates too well with the average American they should be banging on about misrepresentation of the American vote.
The fact that Trump can brazenly tout this as fairer elections when they're generally geared to his side is amazing really.
We bang on about that constantly. It usually ends up with San Lumen and Telconi going back and forth about 'rural' votes and proportional representation and like a hanger on or two raging against first past the post. Literally the last exchange on this was people pointing out that the Citizen question was explicitly designed to undermine the count in favor of Republicans.
I mean, first past the post is terrible and should be ditched so...
But yeah, that's been the trend here on NSG.
