Posted on 11/14/2020 5:11:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Democrats won the popular vote in this year’s presidential election yet again, marking seven out of eight straight presidential elections that the party has reached that milestone.
And, for some Democrats, that’s worrisome.
What alarms many Democrats is a growing gap between their popular vote tallies and their political power. Democrats may be winning over more supporters, but as long as those votes are clustered on the coasts or in cities and suburbs, they won’t deliver the congressional victories the party needs to enact its policies.
“There’s a massive structural challenge to the majority of Americans having any political power anytime soon,” said Rebecca Katz, a liberal Democratic strategist. “It’s a problem.”
Whether it’s a problem — or a necessary check on power — is a point of debate. The founders created a U.S. system of government based partially on geography. Wyoming, with its population of 500,000, has as many senators as California, home to 39 million people. House seats are awarded based on population, but districts can be drawn to dilute the impact of types of voters. The presidency is a won by amassing a majority of electors allocated to states.
“Power is not allocated by the popular vote,” said Simon Rosenberg, a veteran Democratic strategist. “What we have to get better at is not just winning more votes, but winning in more parts of each state, and in more states.”
Still, Republicans’ strong performance in state legislatures makes it likely they can lock in gains during the upcoming once-a-decade gerrymandering, by drawing lines for statehouse and congressional districts that pack voters into districts that favor the GOP. The party’s landslide 2010 win during Obama’s first midterm helped them do that over the past decade.
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Winning the popular vote is the direct result of having Africanized the major American cities, the population centers, wherein the slaves are controlled and voting Democrat is a certainty
Is that including all the deceased people who “support” the Democrats?
Democrats may be winning over more supporters, but as long as those votes are clustered on the coasts or in cities and suburbs, they won’t deliver the congressional victories the party needs to enact its policies.
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Dem controlled fraud vote machines in major cities can’t pollute the voting process in the rest of the country, no matter how many votes they manufacture.
False premise. There is no discrepancy. When you have more people in a state, you get more congressional districts and more representatives.
Call me crazy, but I reject the premise. I think the Dems numbers have been artificially inflated for years, and no one has ever really called them on it. Take this most recent election, do I believe that 80 million unique registered voters actually voted for Joe Biden? I do not.
Still, Republicans’ strong performance in state legislatures makes it likely they can lock in gains during the upcoming once-a-decade gerrymandering, by drawing lines for statehouse and congressional districts that pack voters into districts that favor the GOP.
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More propagandistic framing. When it is Republicans redrawing district boundaries, it’s “gerrymandering”, when Dems do it it’s “redistricting”.
No they didn’t.
This is one reason why we have the electoral college, to prevent states from stealing elections with voter fraud. Praying that it works this time.
Urban living promotes laziness and ignorance ... which is why urban voters of all races consistently vote for Democrats.
that plus fraud.
Are they using the widespread fraudulent numbers? No one but the media is going to believe that the party who lost house seats and gained zero senate seats received more votes for Biden
These articles could point out that trump gained 10 millio votes over his 2016 tally.
Given the vast amount of vote manipulation involved in this election it is quite possible, even likely, that DJT won an absolute majority of the popular vote. the general pickup of Republicans in the down ballot offices is an indication of that. The total real and legal vote was probably somewhat less than the reported vote as perhaps as much as 5 or 6% of the vote was fabricated.
I think the best way to understand the brilliance of the Founding Fathers in creating the Electoral College is to look at a county by county voting map and remember that the Founding Fathers wanted a President who had widespread support, not narrow support from only a few areas.
Yes. When I was single, I lived in cities. Nearly all the people I encountered, Black or White, were Leftists. And Obama was telling us that we needed to move back to the cities. No way! DeBlasio has shown the rot that is in control of the cities. Our Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they wrote the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Actually, they lose the popular vote too, that is the real reason that scares them. They only win the popular by massive cheating.
People bunched together in groups are easy to influence and control.
Get outside of that, and you begin to think for yourself. See for yourself. Find out there are ways to do things outside of the government way.
Leftists love cities for that reason.
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