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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by post_below on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:58PM (#19996433)
According to an oft referenced Princeton study, the will of the population has almost exactly zero impact on congressional voting: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

According to a couple of other studies, states choose policies their citizens want only 59% of the time and politicians, overall, vote against the will of the people they represent 35% of the time: https://promarket.org/study-politicians-vote-will-constituen...

Unless you're using large scale money and influence to interact directly with politicians, neither your will or your direction have any meaning.

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:13PM (#19997603)
That's just a statistical artifact caused by the fact that things generally get passed as soon as they get past 50% support in the legislature, which is about the same time they have around 50% support in the population, and then half the time it happens to be 51% in the legislature but 49% in the population or vice versa.
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