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In reply to the discussion: Hate the Electoral College? Then add Hundreds of seats to the House. [View all]

bluewater

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7. True. But expanding the House would not take a Constitutional amendment.
Reply to BComplex (Reply #6)
Mon Sep 21, 2020, 10:57 AM
Sep 2020

Fixing the Senate will.

But, hey, we got to start somewhere. Any incremental change towards one man one vote is to be welcomed, right?

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Hate the Electoral College? Then add Hundreds of seats to the House. [View all] bluewater Sep 2020 OP
This is an interesting idea - I read about a similar topic a few months ago in the Atlantic FM123 Sep 2020 #1
Wyoming Rule would be a start and provide a justifiable rationale to regularly expand Statistical Sep 2020 #2
That sounds incredibly reasonable! bluewater Sep 2020 #4
Someone else pointed out a simple way AleksS Sep 2020 #3
Districts should have no more than 250,000 people. roamer65 Sep 2020 #5
That still doesn't address the problem in the senate, which we are experiencing right now BComplex Sep 2020 #6
True. But expanding the House would not take a Constitutional amendment. bluewater Sep 2020 #7
add DC and Puerto Rico as States, and split California in 2, that will add 6 new Democratic Senators Celerity Sep 2020 #14
we were discussing this last night, too. maxsolomon Sep 2020 #16
+1000 Celerity Sep 2020 #18
How about this? greymattermom Sep 2020 #8
See post #2. nt Wednesdays Sep 2020 #9
Yes yes yes!! moose65 Sep 2020 #10
Surprisingly, that wouldn't help as much as one would think. Captain Stern Sep 2020 #11
Getting rid of the electoral college looks like the only way to deal with this. BComplex Sep 2020 #21
I have been saying this since I joined DU. Take it to 1,501 or so. If the US House had the same Celerity Sep 2020 #12
With the exception of India dsc Sep 2020 #13
+1000 bluewater Sep 2020 #15
We have around one MP per every 29,000 people here in Sweden. (349 in the Riksdag, 10.1m population) Celerity Sep 2020 #19
To be fair Sweden is pretty small dsc Sep 2020 #20
It would not help significantly. califootman Sep 2020 #17
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