North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map

Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by michaelmrose on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:38PM (#16120169)

If rural voters are a small minority of the populace why should their distinct regressive views have more than a mathmatically appropriate ammount of weight? When tyranny of the majority is most people agreeing people ought to have more rights than rural hicks think they ought to deserve I fail to see the problem.

Democracy means representing the majority view tempered by personal judgement.

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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by logfromblammo on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:10AM (#16124299)

But they are not a small minority. It just costs more in campaign funding to sway their votes. You would have to have a smaller event in every county seat to equal one big political rally in the metropolis. That's a lot of time and distance, and the payoff goes into the basement if other candidates are doing the same thing.

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