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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf it had been reversed and Repubs had 6.1 million more votes than Democrats?
How many seats would they have won?
Probably at least double what the Democrats won?
There is something very wrong with our democracy.
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If it had been reversed and Repubs had 6.1 million more votes than Democrats? (Original Post)
kentuck
Nov 2018
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LisaL
(44,974 posts)1. We are not really a democracy.
We are a form of democracy called representative democracy. Small states get two senators, large states get two senators. That means smaller states have more representation than larger states per person living in that state.
The system is rigged against the democrats.
As such a country as a whole isn't ruled by whom the majority of voters in the country want.
Funtatlaguy
(10,890 posts)3. Obama once joked that California Dems needed to move to Nebraska.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)4. There is enough of them to go around to flip several states.
Problem is, how do you make them move?
Funtatlaguy
(10,890 posts)5. Offer them high paying jobs and drugs and virgins?
lastlib
(23,322 posts)8. I'd settle for two out of three..........
(pass on the drugs.....)
Funtatlaguy
(10,890 posts)9. I'm a southern gentleman, so I won't ask which two. 🤔🤗😎
Oops...didnt see the post below the header.
In It to Win It
(8,295 posts)7. Well, they can spare some voters. Haha
Funtatlaguy
(10,890 posts)2. Stopping gerrymandering and voter suppression is paramount.
Bettie
(16,132 posts)6. That would make a huge difference in
a lot of places.