OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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I don't like that. Then states with little population have an equal voice as states like California, New York or Texas in both houses.
well then it would have to be based on population, but it would have to have some limit, except for 1. i don't like that because you have states that are all one slant and they're huge. texas, for instance.

in any case, it doesn't matter because it would never get done. on this subject, we're just waisting bandwidth.
 
Living in VA, I disagree. I've lived all over the state (NoVa, Blacksburg, Radford, Christiansburg, Locust Grove, Charlottesville) and each section of the state has different things they need from the government. They just need to draw the districts based on counties and leave them alone.

But were district lines eliminated, the pols would have to be able to work address the needs of a broader scope of their state's citizens...not just the GOP guy that plays to the rural blue collar conservatives (despite not actually helping them). Answering to that larger need might have them work more and better with their colleagues across the isle nor the Dem pol that serves the liberal elites in the urban and suburban (and college town) constituency that hasn't looked at the needs of the rural folks and other conservatives as much as they should. This last bit is one of the factors that may have led to the douchebag in chief...Hillary didn't even try to approach those folks that she assumed were lost to them...ensuring that she'd never have the chance to sway them.

The politicians need to break out of the bubbles more than the individual citizens. It's their job to best serve all of their constituents, not just those that they believe voted for them. Forcing them to work with those population groups/centers that they've been able to avoid and marginalize would theoretically be of more benefit. And juggling all of these different needs would create the need for more intelligent and broader/bigger thinkers than are currently holding office (especially for one party).

I hear you though. Just keep it as even as possible. Use the smallest states to set the population number per House member. If it's one, then it's one..tough shit. If the base number is two then the other states are set with a seat based on that same population. I don't care about the states as much as equal representation for all of the population...so let's also get DC a presentative (or two)!
 
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lol.

http://brietbartinsider.com/somali-...ounts-of-sexual-battery-prior-to-deportation/

Briebart has a story about a Somalian immigrant who committed six sexual assaults before being deported. The picture is the rapper DMX. The name the give for the man is a woman's name, and it turns out, the name of Miss Somalia in 2013. Alternative facts out the ass. lol.

i'm glad you are following prefart....errrr.....brietbart and filling us in. my head would explode if i went to their site. i tried, once.
 
let's see if texas republitards are going to shoot the state in the foot and loose a bunch of money and business.

"Last week, about 70 businesses sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott (R), Patrick and Straus opposing the bill. American Airlines, which is headquartered in Fort Worth; Dell Inc., the largest privately held company headquartered in Texas; and tech companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft all signed the letter."

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/322923-transgender-bathroom-bill-reaches-texas-senate
 
But were district lines eliminated, the pols would have to be able to work address the needs of a broader scope of their state's citizens...not just the GOP guy that plays to the rural blue collar conservatives (despite not actually helping them). Answering to that larger need might have them work more and better with their colleagues across the isle nor the Dem pol that serves the liberal elites in the urban and suburban (and college town) constituency that hasn't looked at the needs of the rural folks and other conservatives as much as they should. This last bit is one of the factors that may have led to the douchebag in chief...Hillary didn't even try to approach those folks that she assumed were lost to them...ensuring that she'd never have the chance to sway them.

The politicians need to break out of the bubbles more than the individual citizens. It's their job to best serve all of their constituents, not just those that they believe voted for them. Forcing them to work with those population groups/centers that they've been able to avoid and marginalize would theoretically be of more benefit. And juggling all of these different needs would create the need for more intelligent and broader/bigger thinkers than are currently holding office (especially for one party).

I hear you though. Just keep it as even as possible. Use the smallest states to set the population number per House member. If it's one, then it's one..tough shit. If the base number is two then the other states are set with a seat based on that same population. I don't care about the states as much as equal representation for all of the population...so let's also get DC a presentative (or two)!

I see what you are saying. But I've always felt the senate represents the state as a whole and the house represents their slice of the state. What's good for Fairfax County, may not be good for Floyd County. I think that is good and healthy and it has been until the Tea Party came along and fucked everything up. I see where you are going with making them face a larger group of voters, but the way things have devolved, I think that would make them just ignore larger pockets of people that didn't vote for them. In a perfect world, either of our ideas would work, but we are far from a perfect world.
 
let's see if texas republitards are going to shoot the state in the foot and loose a bunch of money and business.

"Last week, about 70 businesses sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott (R), Patrick and Straus opposing the bill. American Airlines, which is headquartered in Fort Worth; Dell Inc., the largest privately held company headquartered in Texas; and tech companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft all signed the letter."

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/322923-transgender-bathroom-bill-reaches-texas-senate
How dare Texas to try and out-stupid North Carolina (HB2 fame?)
 
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