Re-apportioning the House

[Sandy]

https://qz.com/865380/to-fix-the-electo ... entatives/

[Haruo]

[Sandy]

It's not about figuring out potential ways that Clinton would have won. Trump cheated by getting foreign help. Bottom line is that the electoral college has long since outlived the protection of the privileged for which it was designed. Our President needs to be elected by the people, not by the states.

As the population grows, it makes it more difficult for congressmen to connect with the people who elect them and contributes to the partisan polarization. The idea that California isn't really entitled to equal representation with Wyoming because of the way two thirds of their voters choose to cast their ballots is ridiculous.

[Dave Roberts]

Much about the electoral college was to preserve the influence of "slave states" which benefited from the Three-Fifths Compromise which counted each slave as 3/5 of a person for congressional and electoral representation, although no slave had voting rights. It allowed influence without voters.

[KeithE]

[William Thornton]

Snowflake's chance in Gehenna. Another way Dems try to get power. Run a decent candidate. That should work.

[William Thornton]

I'd make a small point that unions, corporations, and churches are all made up of people. I'm flummoxed as to why my mod/lib friends always are searching for ways to stifle political speech. I think it's because of a subliminal lust for power to be secured by only the technocrats and elitists.

[KeithE]

[KeithE]

[William Thornton]

That's the conundrum, organizations are people groupings. SCOTUS has dealt with all this and will continue to do so, I expect. It's a mess.

[KeithE]

Let me ask some questions. Would you approve it if I posted on Facebook that BaptistLife recommends Bernie Sanders for the next President? Or that the US try militarily to end the Gazan Siege? Or that Medicare-for-All should be adopted in the US?

Organizations should not speak for their members.

[Sandy]

[William Thornton]

[Sandy]