Re:SixCalifornias - initiative to create six states
by nmeofthestate on Friday January 03, 2014 @02:23PM
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(Disclaimer: I'm not American)
Doesn't the US system over-represent smaller states? Seems like Californians would have more representatives in DC with these changes.
On the second electoral-vote point, it sounds like the proposal would result in more proportional representation of Californians' political opinion which is surely a good thing.
Re:SixCalifornias - initiative to create six states
by cafard on Friday January 03, 2014 @03:58PM
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There would be six times as many senators, but presumably the number of representatives wouldn't change that much.
The question might be "a good thing" for whom? American devotion to more proportional representation is and always has been somewhat qualified: the "gerry" in "gerrymander" remembers a signer of the Declaration of Independence...
Re:SixCalifornias - initiative to create six states
by nmeofthestate on Friday January 10, 2014 @10:46AM
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"American devotion to proportional representation"
Well, I didn't believe such a thing existed. :)
I have a hunch that this is something that Koch allies and the RNC would love to see, as it would mean that a fairly-reliable blue state (with a lot of EVs) would become two smaller blue states and four red states.
This makes even less sense than Prop 13, and will have a substantially worse effect.