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It's a fun thought experiment - How many 'really important' topics are there in the US, where it would be worthwhile to have at least one Congress Critter who u
by sdenton4 5y ago
It's a fun thought experiment - How many 'really important' topics are there in the US, where it would be worthwhile to have at least one Congress Critter who understands it really well?
Every MoC has some responsibility to a geographic constituency, and some topical specialization through committee assignments... Geography can create /some/ specialization through electoral incentives, but mostly in rural and resource extracting districts... (Such as Manchin and the coal industry... sigh.)
- corpMaverick 5y agoMany countries have plurinominal representatives. They are not elected for a geographic district since many groups may not be able to win a single district but they have people all across the country and they represent a fair % of the total population. (i.e. lgtb, cyclists, scientists, etc) Plurinominal representatives are also a counter balance to gerrymandering tendencies.