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> It’s unfortunate to not see life expectancy explicitly mentioned. I think it has more to do with the number of constituents per district. You need to be a lo
by Alex3917 8y ago
> It’s unfortunate to not see life expectancy explicitly mentioned.
I think it has more to do with the number of constituents per district. You need to be a lot further in your career to win an election with 500,000 voters than one with 20,000 voters.
- danso 8y agoFor House seats, the districts should have roughly the same population (if the Census is doing its job properly).
- Alex3917 8y agohttps://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/enlarging-the-house-of-representatives/ https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/enlarging-the-...
- linkregister 8y agoDistricts are much larger in population than they were at the outset of the 20th century.
- danso 8y agoAh, I misread the comment obviously.