Re: The Joy Of Democracy

On 2024-10-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:55:53 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:11:10 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

They simply know that the mob will vote for the people who promise to
give them free stuff ...

 
You mean the rural mob, from those former slave-owning states. The ones
who get outsize representation in the Electoral College.

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Do you have any idea of how many rural states either didn't exist prior to
the Civil War or never allowed slavery? What is that 'outsized
representation' canard?  Do you know how the Electoral College is formed?
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Quick lesson: every state has two Senators, no more, no less. That's a
total of 100 votes out of 538. Where do the other 438 votes come from.
Washington DC gets 3 votes despite not being a state. That's the
equivalent of 2 Senators and 1 Representative. All state have at least one
Representative. Until the last election cycle this state only had one.
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How are the representative apportioned?
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https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-apportionment/
about.html
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"The apportionment calculation is based upon the total resident population
(citizens and noncitizens) of the 50 states."
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Now isn't that interesting? Fill your state with noncitizens and you may
get more Representatives, hence more votes in the EC.
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So it comes out to the more populous states getting more votes. Montana is
a rural state that did not achieve statehood until 1889 and never had
slavery. It gets a massive 4 votes out of the 538. Yeah, that's really
outsized representation. I guess it's better than the 3 we used to get.

Much better stated than my post. It's always amusing when those from other
countries think they've got it all figured out in our country.

I believe Alaska, Delaware, Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota and South Dakota
all still have one Representative in House. So all are still on an even
footing with Washington, DC, where the citizens weren't originally allowed
to vote, since they were supposed to be neutral in the elections. (That was
the whole point of why the District of Columbia was to be neutral ground.)
They got Electoral voters in 1961 — it took the 23rd Amendment to the
Constitution to get it done.

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