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woundedkarma

(498 posts)
1. popular vote is going to bite us all in the ***
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 06:39 AM
Mar 2019

It sucks that the republicans have gerrymandered the country such that they can easily defeat the electoral system.

I think the right way to fix that is by getting rid of gerrymandering which was represented to me in a textbook as being horribly wrong and evil and should be abolished 30+ years ago. (and I can't fing understand why it isn't completely illegal and banned)

I think moving to a popular vote system will give california and texas an overwhelming amount of control over our entire country.

It will disenfranchise minority communities every bit as much as gerrymandering.

popular vote is going to bite us all in the *** woundedkarma Mar 2019 #1
Nonsense jcgoldie Mar 2019 #2
exactly ProfessorPlum Mar 2019 #3
Exactly karynnj Mar 2019 #12
+1 Power 2 the People Mar 2019 #8
Agree Legrant Mar 2019 #11
Disagree Completely. MicaelS Mar 2019 #9
California has more power? No, 40 million people do California_Republic Mar 2019 #10
It wouldn't be hard for a few states to subvert the whole thing Shrek Mar 2019 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2019 #5
Not so William Seger Mar 2019 #6
How the hell would Turd win the popular vote with 35% approval? (Welcome to DU) lagomorph777 Mar 2019 #7
It always gripes my butt that Wyoming get 2 Senators just like NY. Designed to help slave owners allgood33 Mar 2019 #13
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