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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by SolaceQuantum on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:24PM (#20762556)
The rural areas have much less representation

Isn’t this literally not true?

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by zaroth on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:34PM (#20762646)
Key word “areas”.

Of course it’s true. WY has 1 representative to CA’s 53.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by lonelappde on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:45PM (#20762734)
CA has 53 districts. Those districts are under representative because they each get 2/53 of a Senator and WY district gets 2. State borders are fictions.
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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by blackflame7000 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:05PM (#20762870)
The Senate was never intended to be representative of the population. That is specifically why we have both the House and the Senate.
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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by Redoubts on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:41PM (#20764443)
And states were never intended to be drawn to balance out slave power. And political parties were never intended to exist in federal government. Guess someone fucked up.
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