Posted on 11/05/2018 3:02:03 PM PST by TigerClaws
I don't think people are ready for the crisis that will follow if Democrats win the House popular vote but not the majority.
After Kavanaugh, Trump, Garland, Citizens United, Bush v. Gore, etc, the party is on the edge of losing faith in the system (and reasonably so).
If you win the popular vote in the house you win period. These people have no idea how thing work
Just because one House district has 120% voter turnout (manufactured votes) doesn’t make it any more important than a House district with 40% voter turnout.
One can only guess they are thinking that they will win socialist districts in Brooklyn by 90:10, but then lose districts in places like MI or OH by 52:48
And that wouldn’t be fair
Or something like that....
What the hell does that even mean?
Each race is discreet.....that is the popular vote
Ezra is a douchenozzle.
Getting so sick of this crap.
The American people don’t vote “collectively.”
We the people vote as separate parts of the whole, as towns and cities, as counties, as legislative and senatorial districts, as congressional districts and states, and congressional districts WITHIN states.
This is republican government, and seems to be eating the left alive. For as power is separated and divided, it cannot be consolidated. They cannot grasp all of it at once.
And that is the point!!
Just tells you the intellect of these morons. Most are barely in their twenties.
Again, who cares? The national popular vote is a game nobody is playing.
In 2016 my congressman, Democrat Pete Visclosky, got 207,000 votes —82% against a Libertarian. In Wyoming, Republican Liz Cheney got 158,000 — 60% of the vote —in the entire state. What does the one have to do with the other?
I believe the Dems got more votes overall in 2016 because I heard a talking head bring it up. Maybe the solution is to do away with districts and have 435 at-large members of Congress elected natiowide so yahoos in Wyoming can’t stand in the way of big liberal states and urban areas having the power that is rightfully theirs.
Deep Blue areas (inner cities) vote 90% D. Most Republican areas are really purple with just a hint of the red. They voter 52% R.
The result is that Republicans win more seats. The Democrats might win the popular vote.
But wait, another factor enters. Voter turnout and total votes cast in areas that vote 90% D is far lower than total votes cast in purple areas tinged red.
The result? Who knows?
Democrats are stupid...
Whenever they lose they simply try to delegitimize the system... even though that same system created how many democrat majorities over the centuries?
They are enemies within.
It's not just them. It's Republicans and conservatives, and at times, even Trump says this garbage too.
Not a Democracy. Doesn't appear anywhere in the Constitution. Democracy is simply the flash point where it progresses into socialism, and then Communism.
Thanks TigerClaws. Another Partisan Media Shill regurg'ing a DNC talking point, but in a way that makes no sense. I mean, even less than usual.
Ezra Klein : “... the Constitution is over 100 years old ...”
What utter idiocy. LOL!
You gotta hand it to public schools, pumping out state use idiots since the 60’s. A great way to run the plantation.
The constitution is older than six months. Also true.
I’ve always wondered...Is that a girl or a guy? Looks like a guy to me.
They know. This is another lame attempt to do away with the electoral college based on a false narrative.
Never let a crisis go to waste, even if it’s your own.
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