The electoral college is nothing to do with the number of senators.
You have a point about the number of electors per state.
As for congressional power, perhaps if people would answer the damn door to the census takers we in the urban states would have proper representation in the other house.
Changing Senate representation feels like a non starter. I instead advocate for new and different States. Puerto Rico should be a State. So should Washington D.C. (no taxation without representation!)
Unify North and South Dakota. Make Dakota great again!
And... 🤔 Kansas + Nebraska = Nebrasas?
Since Wyoming has the lowest population, removing it makes the most sense. But I'm stumped by the merger.
Wyoming+ Colorado= ?
Wyoming+ Montana= ?
#50States
At the very least, quit padding the population with strategic placement of prisons, and then gerrymandering maps. Maps should be redrawn by a Bipartisan third party.
Their argument for getting rid of DEI is that the most qualified people should get hired. NONE, of his cabinet picks are qualified to do these jobs. We need to put that in their face. But, I get it, it's hard to get them to see anything outside the teachings of Orange Jeezus
#ReformTheSenate ...senators shouldn't represent land...they should represent the population. What's to prevent N and S Dakota from becoming NE, NW, SE, SW Dakota? Just sayin ;)
That's literally the entire purpose of the house. The real problem is the rationalizing of elections instead of them being focused on local affairs. It may have been better when Senators brought home pork. At least they were focused on their states instead of being rubberstamps for the president.
Not a bad idea. But really it would go pretty far just for (say) Oakland to become a state -- with it's 430,000 ethnically diverse residents. Give Oakland two Senate seats (the same number Wyoming has with 590,000 people). That would change so much. Who could object?
As a Texan from a very blue Dallas, yes. I very much want that. Texas is ONLY red due to severe gerrymandering and the country counties. The major city population is blue and the outer burbs are purple. If you look at a map of our voting districts they are insane.
That's the opposite of DEI. The goal of DEI is to stop stuff like that. Everybody is to be acknowledged according to their merits and not by what they were born into.
The senators were originally meant to represent the state, not the people in the state, which is why each state has two. Originally, state legislatures chose their state's senators, not the general electorate.
Electoral college was a check against the riffraff.
It was one of the demands made on condition of the United States surrender the FIRST time the conservatives overthrew the government (and killed all the Black people.)
You seriously need to reform. Look at some of the systems er have in Europe. You need more political parties to allow for nuances. All you have is two sides fighting each other.
Which was, ironically, to amplify the voice of minorities. It should be killed, but now that the GOP benefits from it, their calls for it to be killed have ended. It SHOULD be killed, and rank choice voting should rule! The prez and VP should be separated too. What fun that would be.
The cartoon doesn't make sense. The electoral votes allocated to each state are its congress persons + senators. Congress is allocated proportionally according to the census. They are intentionally designed this way so you have a combo of proportional votes in Congress and equal votes in Senate.
The problem is the zero-sum game in the House. Since 1929, it's been "The house is exactly 435 seats, so for any state to gain it has to grow faster than any states with seats left to lose".
Clear that bottleneck, and a lot of problems resolve. Presidential elections still wouldn't, because of the stupid 'winner take all' method nearly every state allocates its electors. Proportional by outcome [not winner-take-all or gerrymandered-to-hell like ME does] fixes that second issue.
Appreciate your clear argument and can see your points. My point was specific to the cartoon itself, it is calling out two Senate seats but refers to electoral college while completely omitting the House of Congress.
If you're begrudging a state for having the constitutionally-guaranteed bare minimum instead of making noise about the 'somebody else has to lose one for me to gain one' artificial ceiling, you're pointing fingers the wrong direction m'friend.
The total membership of Congress has been 535 for decades now, that leaves a lot of potential districts without a representative. Second, the redistribution of house districts rewards fast population growth in Red States, while punishing The slower population growth in Blue States.
The Senate is even worse. 295,000 people are represented by each senator in WY, while 20,000,000 people are represented by each CA senator, 70x more representative power.
It's literally falsely inflated equity by way of forcing the much larger population to have the same voting power in toto as a much smaller voting population. It's literally DEI.
Red states will soon burn in a fire and we won’t need to worry about them anymore. Not like FEMA will help them, and they’re too poor to do shit, let alone rebuild. We got this.
Burn a red state.
This kind of argument can be reversed on you since if you're for D.E.I, then you should be for equity for states too. So you're for the electoral college and equal senators with this same logic.
"The number of electoral votes exercised by each state is equal to that state's congressional delegation which is the number of Senators (two) plus the number of Representatives for that state."
The house of representatives is capped at 435 which cripples Texas and California electoral power.
Why don’t more people fight this fight? The course of recent history could’ve been completely different starting with a Gore admin. And if we have to have the EC, shouldn’t it have saved us from this toxic chaos?
Or mention just how much of their cabinet qualifies as DEI, they seem to think white people aren’t DEI, but women, age, veterans, rural poor, and the disabled are all DEI. Vance got into college under affirmative action for his veteran status. RFK jr. has several qualifying medical conditions…etc.
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You have a point about the number of electors per state.
As for congressional power, perhaps if people would answer the damn door to the census takers we in the urban states would have proper representation in the other house.
DEI does not mean “preferential treatment”
Stop letting MAGA Republicans and racists control the terms of the conversation!
Unify North and South Dakota. Make Dakota great again!
And... 🤔 Kansas + Nebraska = Nebrasas?
Wyoming+ Colorado= ?
Wyoming+ Montana= ?
#50States
The people's vote should count for more then the lands.
Electoral college was a check against the riffraff.
It really IS!
It was one of the demands made on condition of the United States surrender the FIRST time the conservatives overthrew the government (and killed all the Black people.)
This is my new Pledge of Allegiance 2025....from California
Fuck them and make them face the hidden consequences of their actions as their leaders would be tarred and feathered if it wasn't standing in the way.
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Clear that bottleneck, and a lot of problems resolve. Presidential elections still wouldn't, because of the stupid 'winner take all' method nearly every state allocates its electors. Proportional by outcome [not winner-take-all or gerrymandered-to-hell like ME does] fixes that second issue.
This is why the cartoon relates to the Electoral College.
(Also, it’s the House of Representatives, not the House of Congress. “Congress” denotes the House and Senate combined).
WY: 590,000 people / 3 electoral votes or 197,000 people per vote
Each Wyoming resident has roughly 4x the electoral weight of a California resident.
Glad I could clear this up for you.
That way the majority is always represented rather than a winner by small or questionable margins takes all.
How does this not make sense?
The Senate represents State interests, the House represents people's interests.
That's how it's supposed to work anyway.
But ALL Republicans are hypocrites. It seems to be mandatory.
Typical for Republicans.
Burn a red state.
The house of representatives is capped at 435 which cripples Texas and California electoral power.
The majority of citizens are not well represented
... who the people really are.