On Wednesday, Maine’s legislature passed a bill joining a compact to commit all of their electoral votes, regardless of who won in their individual state, to whichever candidate won the national popular vote.
I don’t live in a swing state and I feel disenfranchised. My vote for president, for all intents and purposes, does not count in the current electoral college system.
I can’t wait for the compact to go into effect. Turnout in so many states would increase a lot.
However, my optimism is tampered by this supreme court.
Wow, long thread about it. By the way, I didn’t add the “don’t” after your comment. I just fixed a typo from “I can’t way for…” to “I can’t wait for…”. The “don’t” was there all along. You may have missed it. But no worries. I think we are all on the same page here.
Yeah, I wore that eight hours into a 12 hour graveyard shift. My brain was not fully functioning and I just wanted to inform the guy that you had updated your comment
If you live in an city you vote is disenfranchised thrice over, you just don’t realize.
You are correct, in a swing state your vote would carry more weight. But then you’d be subject to the propaganda and media campaigns lobbied against those populations for like 18months before the vote. It’s exhausting.
If you are in a populous state your vote is diminished by only having 2 Senators. 2 Senators per state, regardless population, GDP, et al, gives undue power to smaller states at the cost of the bigger ones. Taking from one group of people to give to another is socialism right? I missed that lesson of fox nows, idk.
But the house. There’s no reason to cap the house at 435. Zero. Zilch.
The UK, for comparison has 1442 politicians in its two houses under the King. America, 40x the size, with 5x the population, has 535?
Wtf?!?
We need to uncap the house. Like yesterday. Constitutionally it’s supposed to be 1 rep for 30k citizens. That’d mean 11000 members of congress.
I say good. I’m all for power being diluted. Always in all ways. I want power so diluted entropy would take notice.
I don’t live in a swing state and I feel disenfranchised. My vote for president, for all intents and purposes, does not count in the current electoral college system.
I can’t wait for the compact to go into effect. Turnout in so many states would increase a lot.
However, my optimism is tampered by this supreme court.
If anything, living in a swing state makes it count more
I swear the word “don’t” was added in later
Literally what that person just said. They said: if they vote against the US district or state majority then their vote didn’t really do anything.
See the guys other comment. Seems they accidentally added the “don’t”
You mean to say they edited it in later? Because your comment makes no sense otherwise.
That’s what I meant, yes.
Wow, long thread about it. By the way, I didn’t add the “don’t” after your comment. I just fixed a typo from “I can’t way for…” to “I can’t wait for…”. The “don’t” was there all along. You may have missed it. But no worries. I think we are all on the same page here.
Yeah, I wore that eight hours into a 12 hour graveyard shift. My brain was not fully functioning and I just wanted to inform the guy that you had updated your comment
If you live in an city you vote is disenfranchised thrice over, you just don’t realize.
You are correct, in a swing state your vote would carry more weight. But then you’d be subject to the propaganda and media campaigns lobbied against those populations for like 18months before the vote. It’s exhausting.
If you are in a populous state your vote is diminished by only having 2 Senators. 2 Senators per state, regardless population, GDP, et al, gives undue power to smaller states at the cost of the bigger ones. Taking from one group of people to give to another is socialism right? I missed that lesson of fox nows, idk.
But the house. There’s no reason to cap the house at 435. Zero. Zilch.
The UK, for comparison has 1442 politicians in its two houses under the King. America, 40x the size, with 5x the population, has 535?
Wtf?!?
We need to uncap the house. Like yesterday. Constitutionally it’s supposed to be 1 rep for 30k citizens. That’d mean 11000 members of congress.
I say good. I’m all for power being diluted. Always in all ways. I want power so diluted entropy would take notice.