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“Eighteen percent of the population controls 52 Senate seats,” Carville said. “We’ve got to be a majoritarian party. The urban core is not gonna get it done. What we need is power! Do you understand? That’s what this is about.

GreatNani 8 Feb 7
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More people I think need to get out and vote, only like maybe 30 percent of Registered voters, do they're civic duty and voice there right. Why be registered to vote if you don't go out and vote?

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As I've suggested elsewhere, we should start moving liberals into those districts.

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Britain has a similar problem in Scotland, where sparsely populated, remote regions have to have equal representation, so have more MPs per head of the population.

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this system needs drastic change big time

It does but how to make that happen is the question. And people fear change.

@GreatNani it's not going to happen, not the way we could do it any way but big changes are coming.

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I'm beginning to understand how different the information available to that 18% is. They are living in a different universe than mine. Based on the info they are getting, they are making rational choices. How to pierce the veil?

I am not sure it is possible.

@GreatNani Especially when so many are willfully ignorant and proud of it. No.. wait. That was in 2016. Now they're willfully misinformed... and proud of it.

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The urban/rural divide is probably going to worsen. What will happen is the educated versus the uneducated. Scary stuff.

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He's correct. Before we can fix the problems of the Electoral College and the unequal distribution of senators, we need to recognize both of those factors and gain an effective majority.

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