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califootman

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17. It would not help significantly.

Mon Sep 21, 2020, 11:46 AM

Sep 2020

The "all the big states are blue" theory just doesn't hold water.

Top 10 most populous states:

California - Blue 55
Texas - Red 38
Florida -Red 29
New York -Blue 29
Illinois -Blue 20
Pennsylvania -Purple 20
Ohio -Red 18
Georgia -Red 16
North Carolina -Purple 16
Michigan -Purple 15

Blue EC votes - 104
Red EC votes - 101
Purple EC votes - 51

So increasing the number of Representatives will not have a significant swing of EC votes and turn an election. A slightly better option would be to split the state's EC votes in proportion to their vote. Most populous blue states are far more blue than populous red states are red. But that is controlled by the states and the mostly red state legislatures in those red states are not going to agree to that.

What will? Winning purple states in elections, and gradually turning the purple states blue and the red states purple.

And we still need to keep working to eradicate the Electoral College as it is a violation of the principle of one person, one vote.

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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