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Friday, November 9, 2012
A note about "democracy" in America
- by New Deal democrat
We now know just how significant the effect of gerrymandering was in the 2012 elections for the House of Representatives.
Democratic candidates received a total of 53.95 million votes, or 50.26%. Republican candidates received a total of 53.40 million votes, or 49.74%.
Despite this, the likely make-up of the next House of Representatives is going to be 200 Democrats (46%) and 235 Republicans (54%).
Over the weekend I plan on arguing that there are 4 desparately needed amendments to the US Constitution, and that those amendments should be initiated by the State Legislatures as permitted by the Constitution if the Congress will not act.
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statistically speaking, you can't really look at the nation as a whole, you have to look at individual states and see what the percentage of votes for house races was, and the breakdown of representation. See what states are the worst (NC is looking pretty bad at first glance). States with a large number of districts *should* be close to vote count and representation, but states with few districts may not be easily fixed.
Even if Todd's observation were not true, what if all the numbers were reversed? Consistency would seem to still demand amendments for the same reasons.
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