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> If our government was elected based on a "one person one vote" principle, Republicans would be nearly guaranteed to lose the presidency and Congress. They ar

• ninkendo 4y ago
  > expect if it were popular vote they would play a different game with different policies Right, and that different game would look nothing like the current Republican Party, hence why it’s a totally fair statement to say that the Republican Party as we know it today would never stay in power in such a system. They’d have to change, and that change would probably make them look a lot more like Democrats. Put differently, the current politics and policies of the Republican Party only yield electable candidates in a country that gives outsized power to rural voters.