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The Senate is also broken (Wyoming with 500k == California with 39M people).

• pdonis 6y ago
  > The Senate is also broken (Wyoming with 500k == California with 39M people). That's because States are political units, not just arbitrary boundaries. So they also have a voice in the federal government as States. To me, Wyoming being able to not be run roughshod over by California just because California has a lot more people is a feature, not a bug.
  • dllthomas 6y ago
    If that's true, why does it not also apply to the weighting of the Presidency between those two poles? What they were describing applies to every federally elected position, in different amounts. Whether it's a bug or a feature (as a whole or for each position) is very much up for discussion, but it's orthogonal.
    • pdonis 6y ago
      > If that's true, why does it not also apply to the weighting of the Presidency between those two poles? It does. I didn't mean to imply that what I said didn't also apply to the Electoral College. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
      • dllthomas 6y ago
        In that case, I don't think anything really remains of your original comment in this thread? Your follow-ups have blurred the line between factual questions and normative, but in both cases the comment you initially replied to applies at least as much to things other than the presidency. (I'll note that this doesn't mean there weren't interesting points worth discussing that you've been trying to get at, just that you've at least wound up unclear in how you've been expressing them.)
• lbotos 6y ago
  The Senate is designed to act as a counter balance to the house. The senate with equal representation per state, and the house with population based representation. What do you mean by the Senate is broken?
  • AnimalMuppet 6y ago
    It's not doing what not2b wants. It's working as designed, but that seems to be irrelevant to not2b.