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Metaphorical

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3. Doing the vote by congressional district nationally

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 26, 2024, 08:02 PM

Apr 26

would actually be a significant boon to Democrats, as such districts are ordinarily tied to population - this means that the 538 delegates would be more representative of the population overall (which favors Democrats when turnout is high enough to be representative). As it is right now, there are actually only fifty "real" voters because of winner-take-all style voting. It's no surprise that the US has been sliding into authoritarianism.

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Maine Democrats threaten to switch to winner-take-all delegate system [View all] BumRushDaShow Apr 26 OP

Wow. Good thinking Raven123 Apr 26 #1

Both states were dumb to do it in the first place. jimfields33 Apr 26 #2

Doing the vote by congressional district nationally Metaphorical Apr 26 #3

If that were true, we wouldn't have a republican house majority now PSPS Apr 26 #4

So doing it by district in each state would benefit jimfields33 Apr 26 #5