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> or at least not any gerrymandering that happened in the past 100 years. This is the /very/ important distinction. Our entire country was gerrymandered when t
by joshstrange 7y ago
> or at least not any gerrymandering that happened in the past 100 years.
This is the /very/ important distinction. Our entire country was gerrymandered when they gave every state 2 votes in the senate. It's truly crazy how few Americans can sway the makeup of the senate/house/EC.
Edit: removed "(and 3 base in the house)" because that's not correct, I was mixing it up with the EC in my head.
- TheTrotters 7y agoEvery state has at least one representative in the House, not three.
- joshstrange 7y agoThank you, I had a huge brain fart on that and my EC knowledge got all mingled in with house reps.
- TheTrotters 7y agoHappens to the best of us. Happy new year!
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- twblalock 7y ago> Our entire country was gerrymandered when they gave every state 2 votes in the senate. That's not gerrymandering. That's the result of a federal system of government where every state is represented equally in the senate, and on the basis of population in the house. It's fine if you don't like it, but it's not gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is manipulation of district boundaries. Senate representation of entire states is something else.
- joshstrange 7y agoYou are correct and I misused that term. I thought it was any form of changing/manipulating the system in order to allow minority rule but it’s specific about changing boarders which doesn’t apply to what I was referencing.