> The "American people" are not equally represented, and GOP voters are overrepresented by design in the parts of the federal government that the GOP controls.

> The "American people" are not equally represented, and GOP voters are overrepresented by design in the parts of the federal government that the GOP controls. Your point seems to be that some hypothetical alternative government would give Democrats more power, so the GOP, which controls the real government, is obstructing the will of the people... as it would be represented in that hypothetical system? This is an equally bizarre point. If Dems want to pass their agenda, the should concentrate on running candidates that can win according to the rules that they're stuck with. Or even changing the rules via Constitutional Amendment. Bellyaching about the rules is just sour grapes. >This was a somewhat-naive experiment in vote distribution that has been hopelessly gamed by the GOP and needs to be put to rest. I'm not sure that you understand the narrow margin by which the United States came into existence. Without these 'somewhat naive' mechanisms, small states would not have joined the Union and there would be no United States.