Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represent 300M Americans

Re:Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represen... by AnimalMuppet on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:55PM (#21634252)

"The individual vote has been devalued by an order of magnitude." Well, that's true, if you think about an individual voting for a representative. But what do representatives do? They vote in the House. And no matter how you slice it, you can't make each individual's vote matter more in the House. If it matters more in electing a representative, then there are more representatives, and each representative's vote matters less in the House.

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Re:Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represen... by vannevar on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @03:33PM (#21642397)

Look at it from the candidate's perspective: the more voters they represent, the less any individual voter's opinion matters to them. Very similar to the utility of money, the more you have, the less a dollar is worth to you. And the less the individual voter matters, the more monied special interests matter. Money in politics is always a problem, but it's multiplied by the devaluation of the individual voter.

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Re:Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represen... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:30PM (#21642948)

Fair point. And perhaps one additional step: The more voters they have, the more money they need for the campaign.

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