Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'
Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats
Totally not an ominous or fucked up to say when blue states are absolutely recoiling in horror at the fucking disgrace of a president he is /s
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85% of all counties in America
Empty land doesn't vote, you moron. You can be 2000 counties up and only win by a couple million votes, because rural counties are... rural.
Empty land does, in fact, vote...under the racist system that our founding slaveholders pushed for.
If your state isn't green, call your state representative (bonus: the one more likely to give a shit)
The fact that compromised states like Texas and Florida are pending makes me think this will be a mechanism for right wing fuckery.
Oops, turns out that all of these states controlled by the GOP voted 100% republican with no oversight from the feds. Hand over your EC votes please 🫴
If your state isn’t green, call your state representative (bonus: the one more likely to give a shit)
It's not likely to happen, in no small part because Florida and Texas are a majority of the "pending" votes and it's unlikely to pass in either. Most of the states where it isn't pending are smaller states who benefit or at least aren't meaningfully hurt by the EC.
House apportionment hurts states with 1 Rep who are just shy of getting a second the most, and after them hurts California essentially because it blows the curve on population. At the same time, it's the best you can manage with a fixed size House - any other apportionment with the same number of House members will on average have a worse disparity in representation. You'd have to uncap the House or at least significantly increase the size of the House to get a better result.
Of course there's nothing these days that prevents Congressional business from being conducted by teleconference, which would reduce one of the core issues with an uncapped House - the physical and practical difficulties in actually running it. For example, if you were to decide that Wyoming as the smallest state got one rep and every other state got a rep per population of Wyoming then we'd have something like 5780 Representatives.
According to the US election system empty land absolutely does vote. That is largely how you got into this whole mess in the first place.
Are you not aware that tumbleweed leans heavily regressive?
Tumbleweed is also Russian: https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/russian-thistle
... a Russian plant
Come on man it was right there!
According to the popular vote, yes. But the popular vote hasn’t mattered for many, many years. Of the many things Trump has shone a spotlight on, this has been the most blatant.
e: It only sways the results if enough members of the EC are more afraid of the populace than the party leadership.
But the popular vote hasn’t mattered for many, many years.
It never has.
They align more often than not so it might seem like it does, with the exceptions typically being cases where the Republican does really well everywhere but the Dem strongholds, while turnout for the Dems is much higher than usual in the highest population Dem strongholds. For example, Hillary Clinton won the state of California by more votes than she won the national popular vote - literally had California seceded or something Trump would have won the popular vote as well in 2016.